There are approximately 3,100 orb weaver spider species across the globe, but none of them pose any threat or harm to humans. Orb weavers are also not known to be aggressive spiders and would rather ...

A giant spider in Australia has eaten a bird that became entangled in its web. A golden orb weaver spun a web in a backyard in near Cairns in Australia, then proceeded to devour its trapped prey. What ...

This essay is part of Finding Beauty, a series on discovering joy in the unexpected. When I was a teenager, my family lived deep in the hills of a tiny country village overlooking Montego Bay. It was ...

I’ve found this beauty the last few years waiting for her dinner on her web woven on my Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia). Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae and are the most ...