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 ...

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 Spider ...

An experimental and observational study of the predatory behavior of Argiope argentata, a large orb-web spider, is reported in detail. The predatory behavior consists of a sequence of distinct ...

Losing the mating game can mean losing your life, if you are a male St Andrew's Cross spider. . Many female spiders combine a night of passion with a good meal -- their mate. But the female St ...