Common Garden Spiders in North America Looking to learn spider facts, including which spiders are lurking in your garden? The ...

Few if any of our 650 spider species are more obvious than the beautiful black-and-yellow garden spider. The adult females are massive, with a leg span of 2½ inches.

Yellow garden spiders are great for keeping your yard's unwanted insect population down, but what happens if they bite you or one of your pets?

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 s… ...

Species: Yellow garden spider (also called black-and-yellow garden spider or black-and-yellow argiope) Scientific name: Argiope aurantia. Nicknames: ... The female is larger, ...

“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, a… ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Scared of spiders? The photo shared of a female black and yellow garden spider by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says they are important to have around. The black ...

The black and yellow garden spider is often noticed because of its large size and its habit of building webs in gardens and grassy areas near houses. It is most typically found in tall grasslands.

Garden spiders are one of the approximately 480 species of spiders that live in Missouri. They're one of the better-known arachnids found in the state's grasslands, but they are not the only ...

The Oregonian It's bedtime, but suddenly you remember you forgot to close the shed door. So on come the slippers and robe, and you take the shortcut through the break in the hedge instead of ...

Female Banana Spiders (Nephila clavipes) are one of the largest orb-weavers in this country, rivaled in size only by female Black-and-Yellow Garden Spiders (Argiope aurantia). The male Banana ...