The golden orb-weaver is a pretty spider, but maybe not one you want inside your house! Arachnid architecture On most orb webs, the threads that serve as spokes are stiffer and aren’t sticky.

Golden Orb-Weaver Spider (Africa and Asia), Goliath Birdeater Tarantula (South America), Tunnel Web Spider (New Zealand) The Largest Spider Web Ever Found. The largest spider web ever found in the ...

Golden Silk Orb-Weavers. Image via Unsplash. The Golden Silk Orb-Weavers, known for their impressive webs, shine quite literally with a golden hue. These spiders, mostly found in warmer regions ...

The Tetragnatha spider stretches its legs to become nearly invisible. Learn how this clever behavior helps it hunt and survive near water.

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

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest ...

These are the unfortunately final moments of victims of the Uloboridae spiders, a family of orb weavers that, unlike almost ...

A study into a spider species in which the females are prone to eat the males after sex is welcomed into Feedback's new ...

A parasitic wasp forces its host to weave a special web for its own ends. On the evening that it will kill its orb-weaving spider host, the larva of the ichneumonid wasp Hymenoepimecis sp. induces ...

While you might think that we've learned all we need to from feeding spiders illegal drugs, people working at NASA in the 1990s disagreed. In 1995, scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ...