For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

Growing as big as a person’s palm, fishing spiders — the largest spiders in Minnesota and the Midwest — can make people jump, startled by their size and speed. “It’s a very big, intimidating spider,” ...