The nickname “banana spider” is a term used both for spiders that look a bit like bananas and spiders that have been found in shipments of bananas. Some are harmless, and some are dangerous, but all ...

My partner held a photography workshop at our house a couple of weeks ago. This involved 27 people stalking our native wildflower and vegetable gardens in search of prey for their cameras. One of the ...

While harvesting some of my last hot peppers (it's been a great year for peppers), I found a spider suspended between some zinnias and an errant tomato. It was a gorgeous, giant spider with striking ...

“Don’t use that door,” I told my husband as he was about to go outside. “You’ll break the spider’s web.” “What web?” he asked absentmindedly, adding that he’d already gone out and come back through ...

A: Some of the most common spiders in gardens are the Argiope spiders. They are also commonly called garden spiders. There are many species, but most have distinctive yellow and black abdomens and ...

This time of year, when big black and yellow argiope spiders begin showing up in gardens across Hampton Roads, you begin calling and e-mailing. This is the spiders’ time of year. They make their ...

Outside the entrance to the Extension Office is one of the largest Argiope spiders I have seen for some time. She has made a tremendous web that shimmers in the light when the sun hits it. This is her ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study investigates how recent foraging gain affects the web-building behavior of the garden spider, Argiope trifasciata, especially ...

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 ...

The Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 371-383 (13 pages) Two species of orb-web spiders, Argiope aurantia Lucas and Argiope trifasciata (Forskal) were used to analyze how ...