But sometimes, what the eyes gaze at isn't a songster but an eight-eyed yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia). The black and yellow-mottled female garden spiders look especially fetching ...

The brown recluse and black widow are the most common venomous spiders in the U.S. and Alabama. What are their habitats and how to prevent a bite.

and a yellow-orange hourglass marking on its abdomen. The bite is neuropathic like the black widow, but it generally does not spread, so it’s painful but not life threatening. These spiders are brown ...