Spitting spiders don't just bite their prey. They weaponize silk and venom into a physics-defying strike so fast that ...

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

Spotting a spider web stretching from one side to the other seems impossible, yet this is exactly what Darwin's bark spider ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room ...

Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in the spider's main web about a foot above the spring-loaded trap ...

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.

For many people, the sight — or even the thought — of a spider in a spider web gives them the chills. Even without full-on arachnophobia, the prospect of bumping into a spider web in your yard or ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Orb webs look a bit like a dart board. ©Donna Bollenbach/Shutterstock.com Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the ...

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 ...

There’s more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build horizontal sheet webs or tangled cobwebs that ensnare crawling insects. There’s also ...

In the dense forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, the survival of a spider relies not only on its ability to prey on insects but ...