While I am a big fan of spiders year-round, now is the time of year when I truly appreciate their presence in my yard as they stalk their herbivorous insect prey. One of the most beautiful spiders I ...

Crab spiders are voracious little predators. They typically are sit-and-wait hunters that ambush insects passing close by, grabbing a victim with two sets of long claws. Small prey can be captured ...

Halloween may be over, but creepy crawlies like daddy longlegs and other spiders still haunt the hills and dales of Vallejo ...

During the last week of June, anyone traveling in the region is going to notice the abundant and diverse display of wildflowers blooming in the open spaces of fields and roadsides. The growth offers ...

Sep. 5—Early September continues the remarkable show of nature as seen in August. With the daylight approaching 13 hours as we move toward the autumnal equinox, bird migration becomes more active.

Its more official common name is “crablike spiny orb weaver.” Whatever you call it, the critter really is more like a crab than an arachnid, because it has a hard spiny shell. It was “starting his ...

If Miss Muffet in the children’s nursery rhyme had known more about garden spiders, she might not have been so frightened. Spiders are beneficial garden inhabitants that are much more interested in ...

Do you run screaming after inadvertently walking through a spider web? There’s no need to fear most spiders, though some are nastier than others. Here are the spiders you’re most likely to encounter ...

In your home. In your car. At your desk. During this time of year, it seems spiders are everywhere. Petra Sierwald, a specialist in spiders and millipedes and the associate curator of the Field Museum ...

Harmless black and yellow garden spiders are common in Texas landscapes and eat nothing but insects. Lately, my woods have been full of spiny orb-weavers, marbled orb-weavers and arrowhead-orb weavers ...

Cornwall's fishing industry is considering changing the names of some of its most common catches to increase their appeal to consumers in post-Brexit Britain. Previously, around 95% of megrim fish and ...