Well, Charlotte was a black-and-yellow argiope, also known as a writing spider. She is easy to identify because in the middle of her web she weaves a series of thick white zigzags that look like ...

This time of year, when big black and yellow argiope spiders begin showing up in gardens across Hampton Roads, you begin calling and e-mailing. This is the spiders’ time of year. They make th… ...

This spider, an Argiope spider, has graced my garden all summer and should hang on, by just a thread, until the first hard frost. In New England, these spiders live less than a year, unable to ...

C. Neal McReynolds, Gary A. Polis, Ecomorphological Factors Influencing Prey Use by Two Sympatric Species of Orb-Web Spiders, Argiope Aurantia and Argiope Trifasciata (Araneidae), The Journal of ...