It was within the orange tree in our front yard that the first spider appeared, sparking my poet’s imagination.

The spiders we typically see spinning those geometric webs in the fall are females. Some spider species are solo creatures and often travel alone, unless during mating.

One spider’s art is another’s junk The trashline orbweaver doesn’t have a typical aesthetic sense—it wraps up poop, leftover pieces of prey and other debris in a straight line. The spider ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the ...