Spiders are skillful engineers, gifted with amazing planning skills and a material that allows them to precisely design rigorous and functional webs. The material—spider silk—has chemical ...

Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...

While most spiders catch prey by building webs, trap-jaw spiders, a family of ground-dwelling arachnids found only in New Zealand and the southern third of South America, rely on their hunting ...

Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln compared spiders from urban and rural environments and discovered that they build their webs differently when exposed to noisy conditions. In ...

The spiders are only found in New Zealand and southern parts of South America, with the quickest of the 14 species of trap-jaw spider closing their jaw more than 100 times faster than the slowest.

At night in the forests of East Asia, fireflies glow to attract mates. But sometimes their signals are hijacked. Sheet web spiders have been caught turning these insects into unwilling accomplices, ...

Fourteen Ways That Spiders Use Their Silk From making parachutes to building scuba tanks, the arachnids have come up with some fascinating creations ...

Ecologists saw nocturnal spiders attracting prey with its web by using fireflies as bait, according to a new study.

The Joro spider is a large, black and yellow, parachuting spider, that's currently making its way up the east coast. Joro spiders make large, three feet wide webs and can balloon through the air ...

Researchers studying amber containing the larvae of Cretaceous insects reveal that immature lacewings likely specialized in killing spiders. They walked across spider webs with ease thanks to long ...