When it comes to scary-looking spiders, you don't have to be an arachnophobe to find steering clear of the golden silk orb weaver (Trichonephila ... though they won't bite you unless you actually ...

This includes the yellow garden spider, western spotted orb weaver, round shouldered orb weaver ... orb weavers are not ...

It is usually found around the outside of houses and gardens, and is particularly common around windows ... Its webs seem at first classic orb webs - radiating spokes from a central point with ...

The group of spiders — which, aside from having a painful bite, are mostly harmless ... "Unlike other orb-weaving spiders, such as our garden orb-weavers, the golden orb-weavers stay in their ...

The silk was painstakingly harvested from more than one million female golden orb-weaver spiders by a large team in the highlands of Madagascar. Watch Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley discuss the ...