An orb-weaver spider’s web works by forming a barely visible, sticky net stretched across likely flight paths, such that flying insects accidentally crash into it, allowing the spider to eat them. The ...

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 ...

It's a great time to see some midsummer happenings in nature. The warm days, often with scattered thundershowers at the end following an early morning of dew, keep us looking. My daily walks along the ...

Spiders have been active since the weather began to warm in spring. They have grown and changed much but are still with us now as the summer season approaches the end. We tend to think of webs when it ...