Depending on your perspective, seeing a Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) for the first time is either an enchanting experience or an alarming emergency. These creatures are strikingly beautiful, ...

Fall is mating season for spiders, and while their sudden movements can startle a gardener, try to remember: They are ...

When it comes to scary-looking spiders, you don't have to be an arachnophobe to find steering clear of the golden silk orb weaver (Trichonephila clavipes) to be a good idea. Sometimes called ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has ...

Dominating this picture, a giant orb-weaving spider, (Mongolarachne jurassica) having spun a web amongst the Ginko baiera twigs, has just caught a giant cicada (Palaeontinodes reshuitangensis).

The spiny orb-weaver spider, true to its name, boasts a rounded abdomen adorned with numerous spines, resembling the shape of a crab’s shell. These spines, often brightly colored in hues of ...

Tis the season for spooky stories, and just in time for Halloween, the spider that news headlines have described as “giant,” ...

A Ph.D. student at the University of Louisville is taking her research to the forests of Panama, studying on an island in the ...

Different types of spiders specialize in catching different prey. Orb-weaver spiders, for example, build large, circular webs between plants to trap flying insects like flies, moths, and mosquitoes.

Leaves Are Beginning to Turn in coastal San Diego County’s riparian woodland and oak woodland habitats. The summer-green crowns of willows and sycamores are slowly fading to yellow and brown.

Night after night, Vinodh waited patiently in his garden for orb weaver spiders to spin their webs ... Vinodh was born in a small town called Palakkad in the Western Ghats and is a senior manager in ...

This includes the yellow garden spider, western spotted orb weaver, round shouldered orb weaver, silver garden orb weaver and banded spotted orb weaver to name a few. However, all of the species ...