My partner held a photography workshop at our house a couple of weeks ago. This involved 27 people stalking our native wildflower and vegetable gardens in search of prey for their cameras. One of the ...

Spiders make up one of the largest populations of invertebrates in Michigan. There are approximately 50,000 species of ...

A: Some of the most common spiders in gardens are the Argiope spiders. They are also commonly called garden spiders. There are many species, but most have distinctive yellow and black abdomens and ...

Upon an Arc of White. The “writing spider” aka yellow garden orb-weaver (Argiope aurantia) is the beloved spider in the well-known children’s story “Charlotte’s Web.” The black and yellow arigope ...

In 16 years and 375 columns of writing about nature for The Dispatch, it occurred to me that I have committed a major arachnological faux pas. I have never written about our (in my opinion) showiest ...