My partner held a photography workshop at our house a couple of weeks ago. This involved 27 people stalking our native wildflower and vegetable gardens in search of prey for their cameras. One of the ...

A: Some of the most common spiders in gardens are the Argiope spiders. They are also commonly called garden spiders. There are many species, but most have distinctive yellow and black abdomens and ...

Upon an Arc of White. The “writing spider” aka yellow garden orb-weaver (Argiope aurantia) is the beloved spider in the well-known children’s story “Charlotte’s Web.” The black and yellow arigope ...

Robinson, Michael H. 1979. "Specialists and Generalists: the Ecology and Behavior of Some Web-Building Spiders from Papua New Guinea, I. Herennia ornatissima, Argiope ocyaloides and Arachnura melanura ...