Dark, rich midnight blue evokes the image of a cloudless starry night sky, making it the perfect canvas for intricate spider ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

The abdomen of this spider is usually well-marked with a pattern of whitish spots that form a cross. Females can grow to 1.5cm long. Image courtesy of Pixabay (CC0). A new web takes about two hours to ...

The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs produce their effects ...

Frost the cupcakes with the orange frosting. Tint the reserved frosting black. Using a pastry bag, pipe the black frosting in a spider web pattern on the cupcakes.