SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has come back out to play. Orb weaver spiders, one of the most common families of ...

I’ve found this beauty the last few years waiting for her dinner on her web woven on my Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia). Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae and are the most ...

SAN DIEGO — They’re big. They’re scary looking. And they spin enormous, circular webs that can stretch between trees, from a tree to your house, or your house to your car. It’s orb weaver spider time ...

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It’s orb weaver spider time in San Diego County — and this year could yield a bumper crop. Area residents could see more orb weavers this year than they have in years, said Chris Conlan, the county’s ...

In the tropical forests of Peru and the Philippines, scientists found examples of spiders that made large decoys of themselves out of silk to frighten away other creatures.

If you think you are seeing more spiders inside your Tri-Cities home because of the cooling weather, you’re wrong, says Washington spider expert Rod Crawford. “Everything that ‘everybody knows’ about ...

The family of spiders known as “orbweavers” (family Araneidae) contains several species that are variable in color and shape. But even despite all of the diversity in appearance, there is one family ...