Have you ever paused in awe at a glistening spider web stretched between branches after a morning rain? There’s something ...

Spiders build webs all year round, but autumn is the best time to spot them outdoors. Morning dew and mist droplets suddenly reveal a multitude of hidden webs that were previously virtually invisible ...

Season: all year round. Usually found outdoors on walls, fencing and clutter around the garden, but most common in homes in autumn when males leave their webs to search for female spiders. Also common ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

The species with extra red spots on its back tended to spin webs higher up than the other spiders. Because of its lofty habitat preference, that species likely risks predation from above and below ...

The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs produce their effects ...

S piders have a reputation for being cunning – just look at the Ghanaian folktale Anansi. Now, research suggests that a ...