Males are slender, while female white-backed garden spiders are thicker. The spiny-backed orb weaver is another well-known black and white spider. They are easy to spot and identify because of ...

So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a new species of arachnid–dating back to the late Carboniferous ... interspersed with dark spots. The spiny orb-weaver spider, true to its name ...