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

The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged hunters to find their next meal.

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

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 same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

It's a great time to see some midsummer happenings in nature. The warm days, often with scattered thundershowers at the end following an early morning of dew, keep us looking. My daily walks along the ...

Right now, as you read this, more than 110,000 arachnids are crawling around the world’s largest spiderweb. The ‘extraordinary’ but skin-crawling discovery was made inside a pitch-black cave on the ...