Have you ever paused in awe at a glistening spider web stretched between branches after a morning rain? There’s something ...

The female equivalents, however, are a different story ... However, as the female recluse spiders stay close to their webs, ...

Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders responded differently ...

No species has all seven, but orb-web weavers have five. Spiders have structures called spinnerets on their abdomen, usually on the underside to the rear. These are the silk-spinning organs. Different ...

It looks like the stabilimentum has different functions depending on the species.' When an orb web becomes badly damaged, or loses its stickiness because of the effects of wind and rain, the spider ...

Researchers exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals — including caffeine, marijuana, and Benzedrine — and noted how differently they spin webs under the influence of each.

They found that even if the final outcome looks different, the rules that the spiders followed to build their webs were the same every time. The researchers hope that by better understanding the s ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise pollution. By Joshua Rapp Learn There’s nothing worse than a noisy neighbor ...