The biggest of Wyoming’s spiders by leg span, the banded orb-weaver is also one of Wyoming’s most spectacular. It builds large, intricate webs people often see in gardens and in bushes.

How do you treat a spider bite and what are the symptoms to look out for? - With temperatures rising, it’s important to know which spiders can cause problems ...

In Britain, the list of spiders that could potentially cause health issues include the false widow, the tube web, woodlouse spider, cardinal spider, the walnut orb-weaver spider, wasp spider ...

Its name comes from the Jorogumo spider of Japanese folklore. It is a type of golden orb-weaver spider and spins its webs with a shiny golden silk. These webs are huge!

Orb-weaver spiders. Orb-weaver spiders are often found outdoors in yards and gardens. They're rarely found indoors. These spiders vary in size, ranging from 1/8 inch to 1 inch in length.

But orb weaver webs are more than just traps for prey — they also help the spiders, who don’t see as well as other species, gather information about the environment.

But "orb weaver spiders, funnel-web spiders, wolf spiders, jumping spiders, tarantulas, and crab spiders" can also cause painful bites that rarely have serious complications.

And the banana spiders of South Carolina are no exception. An encounter with a golden orb weaver or a Banana Spider. One of your silk strands extends from the thorax to the very heart of the web.

When it comes to scary-looking spiders, you don't have to be an arachnophobe to find steering clear of the golden silk orb weaver (Trichonephila clavipes) to be a good idea. Sometimes called banana ...

Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has come back out to play.