Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times their size. A study revealed 319 cases of such incidents involving over 40 ...

tubular structure (the human equivalent of a bunker), safely backing inside if the need arises. To know for sure whether your lawn may be attracting brown recluse spiders and harboring their webs ...

An expert entomologist warns homeowners against four invasive bug species that are on the rise for summer 2025. Plus, we tell ...

At Jaipur’s Diggi Palace the FDCI India Men’s Weekend 2025 gives us a glimpse into our future wardrobes. We meet some of the ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

Thanks to Tufts researchers, there’s now a solution that shoots, solidifies and even picks up objects. Alas, you can’t use it to swing between buildings.

But web-shooting ... drag something? Silk is very, very strong, it’s very tough, it can lift incredible weights but this is silk in its natural form whether it’s from the spider or the ...

The result is an astonishingly "Spider Man"-like silk that can be shot not unlike the superhero's wrist-mounted web shooters, as detailed in a paper published in the journal Advanced Functional ...

Spiders, their venom and their silk pose many unsolved questions for ... Why does the body structure of spiders differ so extremely? Why have a few spiders lost their venom glands—but most ...

Funnel-webs are a bit more pronounced than a trapdoor. "The spinnerets [silk-making organs], usually you won't see on a trapdoor. There's also other spiders that you can still see the spinner ...