While I am a big fan of spiders year-round, now is the time of year when I truly appreciate their presence in my yard as they stalk their herbivorous insect prey. One of the most beautiful spiders I ...

During the last week of June, anyone traveling in the region is going to notice the abundant and diverse display of wildflowers blooming in the open spaces of fields and roadsides. The growth offers ...

Fall is in the air. On Thursday morning the thermometer dipped to 46 degrees. Everywhere I look I see signs of seasonal change. Leaves have begun to change colors, and some have even begun to fall.

If Miss Muffet in the children’s nursery rhyme had known more about garden spiders, she might not have been so frightened. Spiders are beneficial garden inhabitants that are much more interested in ...

Its more official common name is “crablike spiny orb weaver.” Whatever you call it, the critter really is more like a crab than an arachnid, because it has a hard spiny shell. It was “starting his ...

Do you run screaming after inadvertently walking through a spider web? There’s no need to fear most spiders, though some are nastier than others. Here are the spiders you’re most likely to encounter ...

A Common Spider Crab at Crookes Point on Sunday. (G. Simmons) Mole Crabs We didn't know what they were at first, clustered along the edge of the wrack line, that line where the water from high tide ...

In your home. In your car. At your desk. During this time of year, it seems spiders are everywhere. Petra Sierwald, a specialist in spiders and millipedes and the associate curator of the Field Museum ...

For the majority of the year, native spiders take up residence in our homes and gardens, but tend to stay out of sight (and, cucially, mind). It's only in autumn, when the weather takes a turn, that ...

Harmless black and yellow garden spiders are common in Texas landscapes and eat nothing but insects. Lately, my woods have been full of spiny orb-weavers, marbled orb-weavers and arrowhead-orb weavers ...