“IIt checks a lot of boxes when it comes to things that freak people out: so you’ve got spider, big spider, big colorful spider ... Joro spider have golden webs, but that’s only when ...

Jill ThomsonSaskatchewanI have always liked spiders, as anyone who read my 2024 Halloween article will have realized.

The Joro is part of a group of spiders known as orb weavers for their highly organized, wheel-shaped webs. Joro females have colorful yellow, blue and red markings on their bodies and can measure ...

Creepy-crawly courtship. This shot of a pair of courting crab spiders, taken by nature photographer Sandip Guha in Shiliguri, India, highlights the difference in size between the male and his much ...

But some spiders don't have to spin webs. This spider can jump, and so it is called a jumping spider. Some jumping spiders are really colourful. Jumping spiders have amazing eyes which help them ...