In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

The results provide evidence for the hypothesis that spiders crouch to sense differences in web frequencies to locate prey ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, ...

In the depths of the ocean, near the South Sandwich Islands, a remarkable marine creature has been filmed. This is not an ...

Snare webs contain special types of silks that are designed to trap and hold prey until the spider can get to them and kill them. These two types of silk are cribellate silk and sticky catching silk.

Unlike other spiders, tarantulas don't spin webs to catch prey. Instead, the males spin webs to attract females. Some male tarantulas deposit semen onto the web for the female to use in her cocoon ...

Here are some spiders that can be deadly towards humans or can cause certain level of harm from which you should be stay away.

Jerry Hollis took this photo in the mountains above the Valley of what appears to be a common crab spider (Xysticus cristatus ...