When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky, web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Black widows make irregular or asymmetric webs, Medline Plus says ... However, bites from black widow spiders don’t typically do that. The first signs of a black widow spider bite are usually ...

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 ...