Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania. The web in the "Sulfur ...

The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure ...

Do you hate spiders? Their legs, their eyes, and oh man, their webs. Well, it turns out that they don’t like you much either. Imagine that you’ve stumbled into the belly of the beast, and now you're ...

Tropical orb-weaving spiders craft giant spider-like puppets in their webs. Scientists say the decoys may deter predators, protect eggs and reveal clever, unexpected survival strategies in nature.

ATHENS, Greece -- It's not quite the World Wide Web - but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred into overdrive by an explosion in the populations of insects they eat, ...

Researchers have been warning for months that a large, invasive spider species is poised to continue spreading through Georgia into cities along the East Coast. A new study from the University of ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — People across Acadiana have been asking about the large spider webs that appear to be falling from the sky. So, we turned to LSU Ag Center’s Dr. Stephen Baca for answers to the ...

Discover why only female Darwin's bark spiders produce the strongest silk, surpassing steel in toughness and strength.