The purpose of stabilimenta within the web is unclear. They could help collect water, regulate a spider’s body temperature, ...

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited ...

Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...

Just like some people, there are arachnids out there that prefer to pick up their takeout meals, including the aptly named slingshot spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum). Scientists have just figured out ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy ...

How do spiders go about this delicate dance, what senses do they use to capture their prey? Some spiders are ground dwelling while others build complicated and beautiful webs. Dr. Charles Walcott ...

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 ...

The key is to move the spider to another, less-annoying-to-you indoor location, with one exception: Spiders that make cob, ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...