DEAR JOAN: I’m hoping you can help with a spider identification. This guy was making an exit from my garage yesterday. Its head area was orange-red and the rear was black. It was about 2 ½ ...

I remember finding a big, hairy black spider in the garage when I was about 9 years old. ... it helps to know that very few spiders that live in Orange County have much of a bite.

“You’ll break the spider’s web.” “What web?” he asked absentmindedly, adding that he’d already gone out and come back through the same door earlier.

The Southern Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans) is probably the most common Widow spider in our area. The base color of Black Widows is jet black, with various patterns of red, orange, yellow, and ...

Female and male black widow spiders differ in characteristics. Smith and Aggson said female black widows are jet black with a distinct mark that looks like a bright orange or red hourglass on the ...

There’s a downside to being a handsome green and red orchard spider, like this one that Tracy Franco photographed in Ocean Lakes in Virginia Beach. Because of its reddish-orange belly marking… ...

Black widow spiders are the only venomous spider that is native to Virginia. Yes, you see brown recluse, which is also venomous, except those are not native to the commonwealth. Jin Mi posted on ...

As soon as black widow spiders find an area to live, they build their web there and do not move very often, Smith said. “They want something where they can put up their webs and basically spend ...