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

The bright contrast of yellow and black on a spider may make it look very scary, but most do more good than harm. Here's how to identify friends and foes.

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.

The garden spider waits for flying insects, grasshoppers, and beetles to get tangled in the web. Once trapped, the garden spider bites its prey and injects it with venom. It then wraps the prey in ...

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 ...

It's almost that time of year when spiders make their way indoors for warmth. If you would rather not see the creepy crawlers ...

A: I would hope Gene that these comments might help, but believe me, I was brought up by a family to be frightened by a lot of things, not only spiders, as a child until I began learning about nature ...

The black and yellow garden spider and the golden silk spider are two orb-weavers that are native to NC. They look and function very similarly to the Joro.

This big, beautiful mostly yellow-and-black spider is a female. The male yellow garden spider, as shown here, is much smaller. The adult female in my photograph measured 3 1/2 inches from tip of ...

The black and yellow garden spider and the golden silk spider are two orb-weavers that are native to NC. They look and function very similarly to the Joro.