While it's easy to assume a wolf spider made an intricate spider web, you're actually finding evidence of other spiders. Wolf ...

Each of us is a product of our environments, including spiders which modify how they construct their webs to compensate for ...

In 1973, two spiders named Arabella and Anita embarked on an extraordinary journey aboard Skylab. After some initial setbacks ...

Close-up glowing spider web or cobweb with dew hanging on the grass in the early morning. Golden sunrise shines on spider web and grassland in the background. Focus on cobweb.© Tanes ...

In a web spun by an orb weaver spider, the silk comes in sticky and non-sticky versions, so the spider can just walk along the smooth “spokes” of the orb and avoid the sticky strands that make up the ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Believe it or not, some spiders actually pose a risk to hummingbirds, and these arachnids (and their webs) should be kept far away from your feeders.

A newfound type of spider in Australia builds an elaborate spring-loaded snare to catapult prey into its web. Researchers have nicknamed the ingenious creatures “ballista spiders” after the large ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...

“Webs are like instruments that spiders carefully ‘tune’ according to their experiences.” —David Robson A recent essay in New Scientist by David Robson called, "Spiders think with their webs, ...