Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These web weavers have been found in shipping containers full of tropical yellow fruit, thus earning the moniker “banana spiders.” ...

JACKSONVILLE, FL (FirstCoastNews.com) -- First Coast News reporter, David Williams was on the hunt. He was hunting for something golden, something silky with eight legs and a lot of eyes. It's ...

Golden silk orb-weavers are big, scary-looking spiders that like to weave huge webs. If you live in Florida, you might have nearly run face-first into a few of these webs while doing yard work.

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 Spider ...

The dexterity of this black wood spider is remarkable. A large dragonfly had already gotten caught in her web, and she had killed it. Now, she is using silk to wrap it up, a behavior spiders use to ...