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 ...

Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...

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 ...

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