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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of my favorite hikes this time of year is out my back door and around one of about 500 storm water ponds that now dot the Rochester landscape. For success on this hike I need to get up at daybreak ...

Sais-tu quel animal, au corps rond strié de jaune et de noir, est capable de sentir avec ses pattes ? Aujourd’hui on va parler de l’argiope frelon, dans Bêtes de Science. Retrouvez le podcast à ...

The banded argiope or Argiope trifasciata was first recorded on the Maltese islands in 2003. The first specimen was found in Gozo but since then it has been found in Malta and nowadays seems to have ...

Not one to blend into the background of its creations, the St Andrew’s cross spider is also striking in its own appearance, with bright yellow stripes across its abdomen, making it hard to miss ...

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 ...

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