If you ask a child to draw a spider’s web, this is what you will get! Orb webs have the classic circular net appearance and are visible in gardens on dewy mornings. Several types of spiders use ...

Over here are the wolf spiders; over there the builders of underground funnel webs, as well as the orb weavers and black widows. Because the researchers could draw on so many more genes and ...

The redback spider of Australia spins a tangled web with sticky ... the line snags the prey and then snaps, drawing the helpless creature up into the air where it will dangle until the redback ...

When it comes to their webs and body coloration, a spider has two key goals: be flashy enough to lure in prey, but don’t draw the attention of predators. It’s hard to achieve both. Different ...

Chameleons launch their super-fast tongue strikes by pulling the tongue back as if drawing an arrow on a bow, and then releasing it. “Spider webs have to intercept, stop and retain prey and each ...