But sometimes, what the eyes gaze at isn't a songster but an eight-eyed yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia). The black and yellow-mottled female garden spiders look especially fetching ...

It's actually shy. According to a new study from the University of Georgia, the joro spider −a palm-size bright yellow, blue-black and red arachnid− would rather be left alone than attack a human.

"Just think of the black and yellow garden spider we are all familiar with," said Jim Dill, entomologist and pest management specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension. "The joro is ...

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Another medium-size black spider with long legs raced across the stones. “Looks like it. Looks like a thin-legged wolf spider.” Some years ago, Daniel Jennings, Maine’s foremost spider ...

but many orb-web spiders, which hunt in this way, are brightly colored. New research finds their distinct yellow and black pattern is actually essential in luring prey. Researchers from Australia ...

ATHENS, Ga. — Despite how terrifying those black and yellow spiders in your backyard appear, University of Georgia researchers said they’re more scared of you than you are of them. UGA ...