When you’re deep cleaning, you’ve probably mindlessly cleared away a cobweb in the corner of the ceiling. And understandably so — spider webs don’t exactly add to your home’s aesthetic. Your mindless ...

Researchers have uncovered a unique hunting strategy of a slingshot spider or ray spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum). These stealthy hunters launch their "ballistic web" at unsuspecting prey. The ...

Spiders in the garden can be beneficial, but having to wade through their webs can make gardening a bummer. Here's a trick that can help keep them away.

Researchers have finally figured out how slingshot spiders (Theridiosoma gemmosum) are so accurate when they fire their webs at prey. Everything from the timing to the angle at which they fire their ...

Slingshot, or ray spiders (Theridiosoma gemmosum) pull the center of their flat web back, to form a cone with the spider at the tip, keeping the net in place by holding on to a taut anchor thread.

Scientists discovered a colossal 106-square-metre web in Sulfur Cave on the Albania-Greece border, home to 69,000 barn funnel weavers and 42,000 sheet weaver spiders ...

Spiders are quite intelligent regarding survival, and the example that illustrates this best is that of Cyclosa orb weavers.

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

If you thought only humans enslave and imprison their fellow beings, think again. A surprising discovery has come from the ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Step aside, Van Gogh. Some spiders are out here making self-portraits for survival. New research shows that several orb-weaving species construct giant web-mounted “doppelgängers” convincing enough to ...