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 ...

This juvenile Ecuadorian red bloom tarantula (Pamphobeteus vespertinus) has telltale red markings on its abdomen. The stunning arachnid was photographed at night in La Maná, Ecuador. Spiny-backed orb ...

Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden.

Your face is not what Micrathena gracilis wants to eat. It prefers flies. But hikers, mountain bikers, and trail runners in St. Louis know what awaits them in August and September: an endless series ...

A female Micrathena duodecimspinosa (O. P. Cambridge, 1890) used the elasticity of her long dragline to repeatedly jerk her newly constructed egg sac up and down as she lowered it into the leaf litter ...

We investigated abundance and web characteristics (web elevation and spiral area) of the spiny orb weavers Micrathena gracilis (Walckenaer 1805) and Micrathena mitrata (Hentz 1850) using transect ...