Charles Boult, Bennett Lake, Ont. Definitely not a dock spider, says Robb Bennett, a spider biologist with the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. (Your spideriffic lake was named after him. Oh, fine. It ...

They are around a quarter-inch long. Female Joro spiders spin large golden webs, and you can find them in the center of their webs. Golden silk orb-weavers (Trichonephila clavipes) look similar to ...

Despite being completely non-threatening to humans, the golden orb weaver spider (Plesiometa argyra) has acid-yellow spots and pincer-like legs, and is as broad as a human fist. In other words, it ...

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.

With the weather damper, the leaves brighter and the skies grayer, Seattle and the surrounding areas have fully thrown themselves into autumnal weather, but with this comes the region’s infamous ...

But you would also probably accidentally kill the baby spider just by like scratching your head." Joros are known as a type of orb weaver spider. They are often found on their classic wheel-shaped ...

Another large, yet completely harmless spider that is getting attention lately is an orb weaver, also known as a garden spider. Like its feline-named cousin, orb weavers are intimidating in size ...

Joro spiders — large, orb-weaver spiders native to Asia and introduced to the United States in 2014 — are most often seen building their massive golden webs in September and October ...

Michigan has a Democratic trifecta and a Democratic triplex. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...

Night after night, Vinodh waited patiently in his garden for orb weaver spiders to spin their webs. He got to know their schedules well, observing that the spiders were more likely to set their traps ...