Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room ...

Unless you’re an arthropod admirer, like me, it’s not uncommon to panic if you see a web in the corner of your porch or kitchen ceiling. The good news is that most spiders in US homes and yards are ...

The music of great composers like Beethoven or Mozart has the ability to transcend and transform the human experience. The next great music composition may not come from the mind of humans at all, but ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

From pretending to be their prey’s prey (or their mate), to attracting prey with dazzling patterns, these tricky spiders don’t rely on their webs alone. Some jumping spiders (from the family ...

WASHINGTON, April 12, 2021 -- Spiders are master builders, expertly weaving strands of silk into intricate 3D webs that serve as the spider's home and hunting ground. If humans could enter the ...

Being inconspicuous might seem the best strategy for spiders to catch potential prey in their webs, but many orb-web spiders, which hunt in this way, are brightly colored. New research finds their ...

Some species have an incredible knack for hacking others to get what they want. Scientists have now discovered a fascinating new example – some spiders have been seen manipulating fireflies’ flashes ...

We see silken spider webs in all kinds of places — in a corner of the garage that hasn’t seen a broom in months, in a window that was unoccupied yesterday, among some forked twigs as densely packed ...