Do you hate spiders? Their legs, their eyes, and oh man, their webs. Well, it turns out that they don’t like you much either.

You can identify a spider by its web. Black widows make messy scaffolds to catch more prey, while brown recluses make a flat ...

While it's easy to assume a wolf spider made an intricate spider web, you're actually finding evidence of other spiders. Wolf ...

Spiders are many people's least favorite insect. But it's actually worth knowing their web differences to confiirm you're dealing with a dangerous or safe one.

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...

Pumpkins, plastic ghosts and fake spider webs stretched across front porches, are annual reminders the spooky season is upon us in Australia. However, a startling new trend has emerged in the run up ...

Most of us picture spider webs almost as works of art with their symmetrical lines and intricate, detailed weaving, but you might not recognize those of a brown recluse. The eye-catching, ornate webs ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Spotting a spider web stretching from one side to the other seems impossible, yet this is exactly what Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) does in the rainforests of Madagascar. This remarkable ...