The tiny ray spider uses its web to grab its prey out of the air. Though common practice with comic book characters, this ability is unusual in spiders. So I'm thinking we've all seen a spider ...

An extreme close-up of the Australian rufous net-casting spider's unique silk, captured by biologist Martín Ramírez and his colleagues, reveals in intricate detail the material qualities that make ...

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The tiny ray spider uses launches its web to grab its prey out of the air. Though common practice in the superhero world, this ability is actually unusual in spiders. The backstory: Entomologist Sarah ...

In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly ...

Spiders such as this Argiope bruennichi sometimes adorn webs with zigzagging stabilimenta. Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only ...

Entomologist Sarah Han has always been into spiders. "I grew up in California and there are a lot of black widows," says Han. "I would keep them as pets. One day, one of them escaped. That's a mistake ...

So I'm thinking we've all seen a spider spinning a web at some point - probably a web that functions as a kind of barrier to ensnare unsuspecting insects. Turns out another kind of spider uses its web ...