It actually does some good for your garden.

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 ...

While harvesting some of my last hot peppers (it's been a great year for peppers), I found a spider suspended between some zinnias and an errant tomato. It was a gorgeous, giant spider with striking ...

During the lazy days of summer, nothing in nature seems to be moving or doing much of anything. However, autumn feels like everything in nature is on the move or rushing to prepare for winter. Many of ...

During the lazy days of summer, nothing in nature seems to be moving or doing much of anything. However, autumn feels like everything in nature is on the move or rushing to prepare for winter. Many of ...

One of my favorite hikes this time of year is out my back door and around one of about 500 storm water ponds that now dot the Rochester landscape. For success on this hike I need to get up at daybreak ...

Do you run screaming after inadvertently walking through a spider web? There’s no need to fear most spiders, though some are nastier than others. Here are the spiders you’re most likely to encounter ...

Lately, my woods have been full of spiny orb-weavers, marbled orb-weavers and arrowhead-orb weavers, a new one to me. Despite their creepy reputation, spiders are largely beneficial and help keep ...

An experimental and observational study of the predatory behavior of Argiope argentata, a large orb-web spider, is reported in detail. The predatory behavior consists of a sequence of distinct ...