Upon further evaluation, I noticed something strange: this spider was actually stretching its front legs completely out. Blending into the corner railing of my porch like an innocent twig, it ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice ...

Under a microscope, Briceño and Eberhard saw that the sticky threads do indeed make contact with the spider and stick to the setae, or short bristly hairs, on their legs.

Once an insect lands in a P.vicina web, the spider rushes over and starts wrapping. It uses 10-20 lines of silk at once and cocoons its prey in over 140 metres of the stuff.

An elusive spider related to the tarantula just joined the ranks of recognized spiders. The Pine Rockland Trapdoor Spider lives in the Florida Everglades and it’s a rare breed. It has only been ...

Some webs snag insects with droplets of glue. Others are “wooly”—their silk is made of thin strands that cling to an insect’s hairs and legs, much like the threads of a sweater stick to a bur.

Scientific discoveries are typically made through observations of the natural world. From watching an apple fall from a tree ...