In nature, the spider and hairstreak come into contact when the butterfly lands on leaves or flowers to rest and feed. Female red-banded hairstreak butterflies lay their eggs in leaf litters ...

An egg sac produced by a female banded garden spider may contain more than 1,000 eggs. Discover illuminating lightning bug facts you didn’t know. How Many Spider Species Exist?

Ohio hosts about a half-dozen species of fishing spiders, and later research showed this one to be the banded fishing spider (Dolomedes vittatus). As spiders go, this is a big ‘un.

The white-banded fishing spider On Sept. 7, 2013, I was with a group of colleagues late at night in the wilds of Adams County. We were seeking caterpillars, and thus inspecting vegetation with ...

Spiders emerged on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but because of their fragile bodies, they leave few fossil records—most of those found are preserved in amber. In South America, spider ...