Common Garden Spiders in North America Looking to learn spider facts, including which spiders are lurking in your garden? The ...

Yellow garden spiders are great for keeping your yard's unwanted insect population down, but what happens if they bite you or one of your pets?

Yellow garden spiders are easy to find across North America, particularly in sunny areas with plenty of vegetation. They love to set up their webs in gardens, meadows and fields, often in very ...

Yellow garden spider on web with prey. - Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock There's no need to remove yellow garden spiders (Argiope aurantia) from your yard because they are a harmless arachnid to ...

A garden spider sits in the middle of it’s rain-covered web along Wesley Way on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 in Oakland, Calif. The light in the background was from a light in a parking garage.

Garden spiders like to build their webs near houses. Once they do, they tend to stay in the same spot for the duration of a season. Compared with other spiders that usually build webs in shrubs or ...

Few if any of our 650 spider species are more obvious than the beautiful black-and-yellow garden spider. The adult females are massive, with a leg span of 2½ inches.

Female Banana Spiders (Nephila clavipes) are one of the largest orb-weavers in this country, rivaled in size only by female Black-and-Yellow Garden Spiders (Argiope aurantia). The male Banana ...

NAME: Common garden spider, Araneus diadematus. Not to be confused with the less common and smaller yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia. FAMILY: Araneidae ...

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 ...

Guajardo noticed the bat Wednesday morning on her way to work. She returned home Wednesday afternoon and the bat was still hanging from the spider's web, not moving. Female yellow garden spiders ...

The black and yellow garden spiders and the golden silk spiders have been in North Carolina for a while, Bertone said. The Joro spider, on the other hand, is likely a brand new addition.