I found a large, yellow and black spider in my garden. It had a perfect web strung between my carpenteria and salvia shrubs. I learned that it is the female of the species Argiope aurantia. These ...

October is not just spooky season but also mating season for spiders, meaning that the creepy crawlers are more prevalent in ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The garden spider is a very common type of spider that lives all over the Northern Hemisphere. They live in various outdoor habitats, so chances are good that you’ve seen one before without realizing ...

You’ve probably come across more spiders or have even walked straight into spider webs recently, and that’s because the spider season in western Washington has begun. Well, kind of. Although spiders ...

A species of spider found in China may have evolved so that a male-female pair together resembles a flower, helping them blend in with their background. “This may be the world’s first case of ...

Did you know that spiders are likely to be gone by Halloween? According to Jeff Whitworth a K-State Extension Entomologist.