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 ...

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 ...

Upon an Arc of White. The “writing spider” aka yellow garden orb-weaver (Argiope aurantia) is the beloved spider in the well-known children’s story “Charlotte’s Web.” The black and yellow arigope ...

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 ...

Spiders make up one of the largest populations of invertebrates in Michigan. There are approximately 50,000 species of spiders in the world. Michigan has about 45–50 spider families and roughly 470 ...