Sensory organs on the walking legs of the male wasp spider can catch the scent of a female in a mood for romance.

The species has fangs that produce a painful bite, like a wasp sting, resulting in a range of unpleasant symptoms that can ...

Venomous spiders are spreading across the UK and hospitalising a record number of people. Only 10 species currently in the country have the fangs and jaw muscles needed to penetrate human skin. The ...

Without these, how do spiders detect odours at all? Our study has solved these long-standing questions. We discovered ...

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing ...

For the wasp spider, tip-pore sensilla were found on the ends of the legs, where they are most likely to come into contact with what the spider is walking on. Wall-pore sensilla were found in the ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

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A Female wasp spider with the male reproduction in the mountain forest of Taipei in Taiwan-Dan Argiope lobata in Tenerife Argiope lobata lower view - Tenerife Is a species of spider belonging to the ...