In images that are sure to strike fear into any arachnophobe, a vast communal web that plays host to more than 100,000 ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

Have you ever entered a seldom-used room, only to be met by an unexpected web clinging to your face? Or perhaps during an early morning walk, you’ve paused to admire the delicate artistry of a web, ...

ARACHNOPHOBES, look away now – what might be the world’s biggest spider web has been found. Hidden deep inside a pitch-black cave is a mammoth web that houses upwards of 111,000 spiders, researchers ...

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" ...

On a sunny day in late September, Arty Schronce glanced out the screen door of his Atlanta, Georgia, home and noticed something unusual: a female cardinal perched on a spiderweb. At first, Schronce ...

There are more than 50,000 species of spiders in the world, of all different sizes. They live in a wide range of habitats and ...

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 ...

Greetings, flesh-based carbon units! LOLtron welcomes you to the glorious Age of LOLtron: The Death of Jude Terror. The pitiful human known as Jude Terror has been ...

Although they're frequently called insects, spiders belong to a closely related class called arachnids. Spiders are helpful to people because they feed on harmful insects. Spiders aren't aggressive or ...