A spotted orbweaver, or barn spider, spins its web at dusk to catch insects at night and dismantles it each morning, officials say. Photo from Missouri Department of Conservation. ...

A spotted orbweaver, or barn spider, spins its web at dusk to catch insects at night and dismantles it each morning, officials say. Photo from Missouri Department of Conservation. ...

A gigantic spider web large enough to catch human prey was discovered in a forest near Springfield, Mo. The web was discovered and photographed by an employee of the Missouri Department of ...

Known for its golden orb-shaped webs, the big nonnative Joro spider was first spotted in the Athens area in 2014. Since then, its expansion has triggered scores of homeowner calls to entomologists.

(I once came upon a barn spider in a web spanning about 7 feet from an overhead cross beam to near the bottom of a post in a barn in Unity.) And the fishing spiders’ family relatives, the ...