As the onset of summer nears, so too do warmer temperatures and mating season for many of the nearly 900 spider species in Texas. Even though you’re unlikely to cross paths with many of these Lone ...

I found a large, yellow and black spider in my garden. It had a perfect web strung between my carpenteria and salvia shrubs. I learned that it is the female of the species Argiope aurantia.

rivaled in size only by female Black-and-Yellow Garden Spiders (Argiope aurantia). The male Banana Spider is pictured above in the lower left. Courtesy photo by Texas A&M. In the western ...

These spiders have a small head topped with silver hairs and an oval-shaped abdomen with a black and yellow pattern. The pattern includes a thick black stripe in the middle of the abdomen with ...

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.