Close up of black and yellow garden spider in web - Wahid Hasyim Asyari/Getty Images The differences between Joro spiders and black and yellow garden spiders go beyond their appearance. Joro spiders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The way gardeners view insects has come a long way in the past few decades. The importance of pollinators and the natural pest ...

One of the quintessential images of Halloween just might be spiders: huge black, crouching, fanged spiders, ready to jump out from a shadowy webbed corner and bite! But as gardeners, should we view ...

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 ...

Spiders weave different styles of webs for different hunting tactics. Identifying the web helps identify if its maker is a ...

With Halloween coming up, I thought it would be a good time for some spider talk. I have always been a spider fan and certainly tossed my fair share of helpless insects into Argiope garden spider webs ...

These beneficial insects are “good guy” bugs that help control pests naturally and pollinate flowers. Plant pests, such as snails, slugs, and tomato hornworms, can wreak havoc on ornamental and edible ...

Sonoma County gardens are places where something novel is always happening. Wide temperature swings keep us on our toes. We relish the sight of beneficial insects showing up to feed upon insect pests ...

Families got up close with live bugs, tarantulas, and black widow spiders while learning about Colorado ecosystems.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Spiders get a bad rap. Many people go to great lengths to avoid or get rid of them. Is it their otherworldly appearance? A concern about being bitten by a ...