The Pacific Island of ... big yellow and black critter called Argiope appena, or the banana spider. "And actually," she says, "what we found was, their webs were much bigger on Guam than on ...

WASHINGTON -- Is the island of Guam in danger of tipping over and capsizing ... as "uppity" -- a pejorative historically used by white Southerners to describe well-to-do African-Americans.

This is the new America-- black, brown ... of the U.S. spear in the Pacific. A tiny island smaller than New York City with fewer than 200,000 people. Guam is an unincorporated U.S. territory ...

Guam has 40 times more spiders than neighbouring islands – and a population of ... which usually involve zig-zag patterns made from opaque white threads. One idea is that they warn birds of ...