Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

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 ...

Scientists have successfully managed to extract DNA from spider webs, which not only identified a web's architect, but also what insects the spinner was feeding on. The proof-of-concept study, ...

All spiders can produce silk, in some cases using it for bridging between twigs, or ballooning away while dispersing, or wrapping up a cluster of eggs. Many (but not all) spiders use silk for ...

Funnel web spiders are a group of spiders that belong to the Dipluridae family in the order Araneida. They get this name from the shape of the web that they weave. Since there are several varieties of ...