Yellow garden spiders are great for keeping your yard's unwanted insect population down, but what happens if they bite you or one of your pets?

All these spiders are orb-weavers like Joro spiders, but they vary in size. Yellow garden spiders are, on average, the smallest of the three while banana spiders are the largest.

The black and yellow garden spider is often noticed because of its large size and its habit of building webs in gardens and grassy areas near houses. It is most typically found in tall grasslands.

Few if any of our 650 spider species are more obvious than the beautiful black-and-yellow garden spider. The adult females are massive, with a leg span of 2½ inches.

The black and yellow garden spider is often noticed because of its large size and its habit of building webs in gardens and grassy areas near houses. It is most typically found in tall grasslands.

Female Banana Spiders (Nephila clavipes) are one of the largest orb-weavers in this country, rivaled in size only by female Black-and-Yellow Garden Spiders (Argiope aurantia). The male Banana ...

The black and yellow garden spiders are also known as weaving or writing spiders, and banana spiders are large in size and may invoke fear however, they are beneficial to the habitat by eating ...