New Scientist

If I walk through a spider’s web, what are its chances of survival?

An orb-weaver spider’s web works by forming a barely visible, sticky net stretched across likely flight paths, such that flying insects accidentally crash into it, allowing the spider to eat them. The ...

Largest web in the world crosses two countries and houses more than 100,000 spiders

Scientists discovered a colossal 106-square-metre web in Sulfur Cave on the Albania-Greece border, home to 69,000 barn funnel ...
The New York Times

Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. By Adeel Hassan Even in a pitch-black cave, what appears ...
CNN

Spider forces male fireflies to flash like females to set a lethal trap, scientists say

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