How do spiders make such intricate webs? Don’t get too tangled up about it. In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian host, Eric Schulze, weaves his way to the answer. Explore Subscribe ...

If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

The theory is that flying insects do not notice the web ... However, the Uloboridae spiders make their webs out of a wooly silk (called cribellate) which has velcro-like strands in which the ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

But how much do we ... exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals, including caffeine, marijuana, and Benzedrine - a type of amphetamine - and noted how they spun their webs under the ...

In humans, bites produce muscle aches, nausea, and a paralysis of the diaphragm that can make breathing difficult ... mating ritual. These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

These nocturnal spiders get their name from the small sacs that they hide in during the day. The yellow sac spider can make a new cocoon ... and other vegetation. What do yellow sac spiders ...