Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...

When it comes to scary-looking spiders, you don't have to be an arachnophobe to find steering clear of the golden silk orb weaver (Trichonephila clavipes) to be a good idea. Sometimes called ...

While Joro spiders can bite if provoked, they are generally non-aggressive. The Georgia Department of Agriculture states that ...

Beautifully weird and astonishingly intricate. And the banana spiders of South Carolina are no exception. An encounter with a golden orb weaver or a Banana Spider. Take a closer look. One of your ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Oxford Silk Group, part of Oxford University in the UK, filmed a spider silk harvesting session. Golden Orb Weaver spiders produce up to 80 meters of ...

Little did they know they were in for what Shamble says was “a huge surprise”: the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the ...

Prey stick to orb-weaver spider webs because their waxy outer layers mesh with spider silk to form a matrix glue. A team of physics students in the U.K. have worked out that spider silk could be ...

A small spider with pale body and legs and silver-grey markings on the abdomen. It is usually found around the outside of houses and gardens, and is particularly common around windows. Because of ...

It acts like Velcro, sticking to the legs and bristles of captured insects.' A member of the Araneidae family, the garden orb-weaver or garden cross spider (Araneus diadematus) is probably the ...

Informational purposes only. Do not attempt any of this at home. If you are a male orb weaver spider, life is difficult. You are much smaller than the females, and yet biology drives you to mate with ...