Researchers at Grand Valley State University discovered spider webs effectively collect DNA from pests like hemlock woolly ...

During the Christmas season in Eastern Europe, especially in Ukraine, it’s common to see spiders and spider webs dangling from Christmas trees. They could be gold, silver, or a whole range of ...

Fake spider webs are used to decorate outdoor trees and bushes during the Halloween season. (iStock) She noted that fake spider webs also don’t break as easily as real spider webs.

One day, as Allentoft was walking around a lake in his home of Perth, he noticed heaps of giant webs in the trees made by golden orb-weaving spiders. ALLENTOFT: I've been told in my biology days ...

Spider mites are common household pests that infest crops and houseplants. Learn more about what spider mites eat, why you get them, how to get rid of spider mites, and more.

Funnel-weaving spiders may be using webs to soundproof against manmade noise which tends to overlap with frequency range they use for communication ...

Spiders that construct capture webs produce one kind of silk for joining lines, another for safety lines, another for frame lines, another of nonsticky thread used in the preliminary scaffolding.

A sprawling spider web at a Dallas-area park has attracted thousands of insects and the attention of people curious about arachnids.

Add to that list the newly discovered "bone collector" caterpillar, which conducts daring raids on spider webs for sustenance, camouflaging itself in the body parts of already-consumed insects to ...