In the tropical forests of Peru and the Philippines, scientists found examples of spiders that made large decoys of themselves out of silk to frighten away other creatures.

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 ...

May 17—May is a month filled with nature happenings. The temperatures are warming, though frost still may be with us. May can be a dry month, but typically we get showers. It is the beginning of our ...

The newly found wasp appears to be common in the eastern United States, and inflicts Lynchian body horror onto its hosts. Humans have been getting high since basically the dawn of time. The goo only ...

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 ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature “extra touches” known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...

In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly ...

It’s the real world wide web. Romanian scientists realized every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare after discovering the “world’s biggest spider web”– complete with approximately 111,000 of the critters.

A funnel weaver spider sits on its intricate web that collects everything from prey to microscopic dust particles. A group of about a dozen community activists, scientists, and volunteers advanced ...

Whether tucked into the corners of a haunted house or shining with drops of morning dew between tree branches, spider webs are homes to the eight-legged critters. Like some species in the animal ...