SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has come back out to play. Orb weaver spiders, one of the most common families of ...

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.

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 ...

Spiders known for elaborate circular webs have altered their spinning style in dark spaces to create apparent tripwires for walking prey. Those that make circular webs are known as orb-weavers, and ...

May is a month filled with nature happenings. The temperatures are warming, though frost still may be with us. May can be a dry month, but typically we get showers. It is the beginning of our rainy ...

Tropical orb-weaving spiders craft giant spider-like puppets in their webs. Scientists say the decoys may deter predators, ...

Helicopter damselflies specialize in preying on web-building spiders, like the little orb weavers. This predatory flyer is ...

Spiders have been active since the weather began to warm in spring. They have grown and changed much but are still with us now as the summer season approaches the end. We tend to think of webs when it ...

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