A few weeks ago you published a picture of a zipper spider from one of your readers. A zipper spider was living in my garden a few years ago. When we got up one morning the following June, we got a ...

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. These ...

Have you met a common garden spider? Have you noticed a large spider hanging like a garden ornament in the middle of its web? You might see it in a late-summer garden, or in an old field rich with ...