Few North and Central American spiders are more eye-catching that the yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia). Yellow garden spiders are a type of orb-weaving spider, constructing huge ...

I learned that it is the female of the species Argiope aurantia. These spiders are orb-weaving, that is, they build circular webs. The webs have sticky lines of silk by which they trap their prey.

The big’uns you’re likely to notice right now are dramatic black and yellow Argiope aurantia or yellow garden spiders, also called writing spiders because of the zipper-like stripes they weave ...

I have never written about our (in my opinion) showiest spider, the black-and-yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia). Late summer and fall is an eight-legged paradise for spider enthusiasts ...

Eight yellow garden spiders, also called writing spiders or Argiope aurantia, set up shop at various locations around the exterior of my house this summer. These strikingly large, yellow-and-black ...

As she compiled her detailed photographs of Argiope Aurantia or Garden Spiders, she writes alongside them scientific facts describing the daily life of these human-friendly arthropods. The on ...