When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

Researchers have documented for the first time a bizarre mating behavior among tiny spider-like creatures in which males "undress" the females before copulating. A team of scientists observed the ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

Learn more about a parasitic spider mite discovered in Brazil, the second of the genus ever described.