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 ...

Sep. 5—Early September continues the remarkable show of nature as seen in August. With the daylight approaching 13 hours as we move toward the autumnal equinox, bird migration becomes more active.

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 ...

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 ...

Some crab spiders have ditched webs for flowers. Masters of disguise, female Thomisus guangxicus spiders blend in with petals, which allows the arachnids to nab insects that pass by while fooling ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

New research proves that the horseshoe crab is a relative to the spiders after all, and does not belong to the family of crabs. Evolutionary biologists first thought that the blue-blooded horseshoe ...

Spiders get a bad rap. Many people go to great lengths to avoid or get rid of them. Is it their otherworldly appearance? A concern about being bitten by a poisonous type or simply the idea of “creepy, ...

Cornwall's fishing industry is considering changing the names of some of its most common catches to increase their appeal to consumers in post-Brexit Britain. Previously, around 95% of megrim fish and ...