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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sais-tu quel animal, au corps rond strié de jaune et de noir, est capable de sentir avec ses pattes ? Aujourd’hui on va parler de l’argiope frelon, dans Bêtes de Science. Retrouvez le podcast à ...

The banded argiope or Argiope trifasciata was first recorded on the Maltese islands in 2003. The first specimen was found in Gozo but since then it has been found in Malta and nowadays seems to have ...

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 ...

De la fin août à la fin septembre, l’Argiope aurantia femelle fabrique un ou plusieurs cocons. Le mâle tisse une petite toile non loin de celle de la femelle qu'il a choisie et attend que cette ...

Surfer sur la toile de l’argiope Rendez-vous ce dimanche avec la fascinante argiope frelon, construisant sa toile – web en anglais – grâce au produit élastique issu de ses glandes séricigènes, cent ...

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