Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Spiders get a bad rap. Many people go to great lengths to avoid or get rid of them. Is it their otherworldly appearance? A concern about being bitten by a ...

These spiders are commonly confused with golden orb spiders, but garden spiders are smaller and lack the golden sheen on their webs. You may also hear these arachnids referred to as the zipper spider ...

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 ...

When I see a garden spider, l recall a fellow graduate student who I came to know while doing owl research in Minnesota. On occasion, I would drop by her office which she shared with her husband, a ...

One of the quintessential images of Halloween just might be spiders: huge black, crouching, fanged spiders, ready to jump out from a shadowy webbed corner and bite! But as gardeners, should we view ...

Male black widow spiders tend to be smaller than the females and usually have three light-colored streaks on their abdomen as compared to the female black widow that has the identifiable red hourglass ...

Crimson red ladybug spider with surprising scientific characteristics has been discovered in Morocco and named Eresus ...