Independent Journal Review

World’s Largest Spiderweb Has Been Discovered

Deep in a sulfur cave in Mexico, scientists found the world’s biggest spiderweb — home to 111,000 spiders living in total ...

Spider megacolony of 111,000 found weaving record web in Sulfur Cave on Greece-Albania border

Published in the journal Subterranean Biology, the find marks the first documented colonial behavior in Tegenaria domestica and Prinerigone vagans.

Why Spiders Are the Ultimate Interior Decorators

Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.
Yahoo

South Columbus business owner says ‘Spiderweb’ construction project drove away customers

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — A longtime Columbus business owner says road construction in South Columbus forced him to close his doors after 25 years. Mike Pair, owner of Exhaust Pro Systems on Andrews ...
insider.si.edu

Spider webs behavior, function, and evolution William Eberhard

Introduction -- The "hardware" of web-building spiders: morphology, silk, and behavior -- Functions of orb web designs -- Putting pieces together: tradeoffs and remaining puzzles -- The building ...
The Scientist

Spiders Spin Web Decorations That May Help Detect Prey

Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...
ABC 7 Chicago

MIT scientists translated spider webs into music. It could help us talk to them.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music -- creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how ...