You've found a web in your home or yard, and you're pretty sure was made by a brown recluse spider. Here's how to get rid of ...

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 fact, this newly discovered species, which scientists are calling the ballista spider, hunts green tree ants exclusively ...

A tethered mosquito approaches the web in the path of release of the cone, and triggers web release response. Credit: S.I. Han and T.A. Blackledge, 2024. Ray spiders deploy an unusual strategy to ...

Spitting spiders don't just bite their prey. They weaponize silk and venom into a physics-defying strike so fast that scientists needed high-speed cameras just to watch it happen.

It’s well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their webs whenever prey (like a fly) gets caught; the web serves as an extension of their sensory system. But ...

A newfound type of spider in Australia builds an elaborate spring-loaded snare to catapult prey into its web. Researchers have nicknamed the ingenious creatures “ballista spiders” after the large ...

Ecologists have observed a species of nocturnal spider attracting prey to its web using the bioluminescent beacons of already trapped fireflies. This rare example of a predator exploiting its prey’s ...

A yellow garden spider turns a live cricket into a silk-wrapped bundle in the time it takes to blink, and what happens next is even more unsettling than it looks.