Birds are perhaps the most colorful group of animals, bringing a splash of color to the natural world around us every day.

They have black bodies with patches of yellow, white, or orange on top. Their mouth parts, chelicerae, are iridescent green. You'll find these tiny arachnids during the day on window sills and decks.

“Black And Yellow” finally ascended to #1 just after the Super Bowl, and it eventually went platinum six times over. The song had already fallen from the top when Wiz released his Atlantic ...

Black-and-yellow garden spiders flourish in fields and meadows with plenty of native plants. Native flora spawns far more insects than do nonnative plants, and garden spiders are insect connoisseurs.

It's actually shy. According to a new study from the University of Georgia, the joro spider −a palm-size bright yellow, blue-black and red arachnid− would rather be left alone than attack a human.

Yellowjackets are shiny yellow and black wasps about 1/2 to 5/8 inches long. They are about the size of a honey bee, but more slender, shiny, and nearly hairless. These wasps can form underground ...