A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers ...

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Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden.

According to new research published last week in Current Biology, a North American spider species can change how its webs transmit vibrations. The authors have reported that spiders in urban ...

Walking into a spider web might make you panic, even if it’s only a few feet wide. Now imagine colliding into one over 80 feet long. That’s unlikely, but thanks to the Darwin’s bark spider ...

Spiders build symmetrical webs for more than just beauty—they’re an incredible survival tool. Discover the science and geometry behind these intricate structures and how they help spiders catc ...

Spiders regularly clean the sticky substance from their legs by drawing them through their jaws, which also helps, as does a secretion that lubricates their claws. Of the 50,000 or so known spider ...

While cleaning his glassware with acetone in what he calls a moment of serendipity, he noticed something: a web-like material forming on the bottom of the glass. You could say his Spider-Sense ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

Researchers have finally figured out how slingshot spiders (Theridiosoma gemmosum) are so accurate when they fire their webs at prey. Everything from the timing to the angle at which they fire ...

These included extra small twigs to anchor the tension lines that ray spiders use at the center of their webs to draw it back into a cone like a slingshot. The 19 spiders built 26 webs over the ...

Two views of the slingshot spider; the the right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip. © Reproduced with permission of The Company of ...