Spider webs present an intriguing challenge to evolutionary biologists. These finely honed death traps come in many forms, from the trampoline-like construction of the sheet web spider, to the ...

The behavior, which had never been observed before, stunned scientists as, typically, the larger house spider would prey on ...

MUSKEGON, MI – Walking into a sticky spider web can be a day wrecker, and Michigan’s woods are full of them. The clingy structures attach to faces and clothes and are a pain to remove. That stickiness ...

It's the time of year when the orb-weaver spider's appearance is more common in the Wilmington area. The orb-weaver spider might not be popular or wanted around by many people because of the massive ...

Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in ...

Urák and his team visited the cave two years later to analyse the some69,000 T. domestica and 42,000 P. vagans lurking inside. What took scientists off guard was that P. vagans are usually on the menu ...

Giant communal webs have appeared around the world. Find out what species builds them and how they benefit from teamwork.