While most people think of spiders spinning webs to catch prey, the Scytodes makes use of a different tactic to paralyze ...

Recently, two new threats have emerged that are injuring and killing native songbirds, one of which is quite relevant to the recently celebrated Halloween holiday — spider webbing as part of Halloween ...

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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 ...

Orb-weaver spiders produce fine threads made of nanofibers, arranged like beads on a string with puffs and intermediate zones. The spiders have an organ called a cribellum, which pushes out silk ...