Unusually for spiders, male diving bell spiders are larger and heavier than females. A 2003 study in the journal Evolutionary Ecology Research looked at why this might be and found that for the ...

The diving bell also serves to replenish the spider’s second trick for breathing underwater. Water-repellent hairs on its body trap a thin layer of air whenever it returns to its bubble.

In contrast, fishing spiders (family Pisauridae) hunt on the water’s surface but do not build diving bell webs or live underwater. Other spiders weave tiny webs, which they use as nets.

Diving bell spiders spin ‘bubbles’ of web that not only let them live under water, but serve as gills that take in oxygen from the water. Now two. Skip to content Search . Home; ...

That's the text overlay of a video (archived) shared to Reddit on Feb. 21, 2024, that purported to show a genuine red-and-blue spider that resembled the comic book superhero Spider-Man.

It's likely that the red-fanged funnel-web spider was underappreciated by her own kind. Funnel-web spiders have poor vision, probably because they spend all of their time in underground burrows ...