Ever walked past a spider’s web and noticed it’s got zigzags woven through it? Congratulations! You have observed stabilimenta, a kind of “extra touch” that spiders weave into their webs that's made ...

The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided web under tension, which it releases the moment prey flies into the web. Jessica Garb and colleagues sequenced the genome ...

Silk decorations in spider webs aren’t just for show. They may help spiders “hear” their prey through vibrations.

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 ...

Take a walk through a forest, and you’re bound to come upon a spider web stretching from one tree branch to the next. The intricacy of the web can leave a person in awe, but what is even more ...

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

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

LAFAYETTE, KATC — If you've noticed an increase in webs appearing around your neighborhood, there's no need to call Spider-Man. What you're seeing is a natural phenomenon known as "ballooning," which ...

It’s almost time to dust off the Halloween decorations and adorn the house with all manner of spooky things, including the classic polyester spider webs. Scientists reporting in ACS Nano have made ...