The yellow garden spider is better known to many as the writing spider due to the iconic zig-zag feature of their web. Click on the video for details on writing spiders.

These spiders are commonly confused with golden orb spiders, but garden spiders are smaller and lack the golden sheen on their webs. You may also hear these arachnids referred to as the zipper spider ...

Large, yellow spiders not native to the United States have been spotted just south of North Carolina. The joro spider is native to Korea, Taiwan and China. But in 2013 scientists found it living in ...

CHESTERTOWN — A Washington College professor is calling on residents in the Baltimore area and on the Eastern Shore to help track the expansion of the Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an invasive ...