Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

If you are anything like Mitchell and Ashley, and still lack a Halloween costume for this year, then you will love the easy spider headbands they made on today’s show! All you need is a ...

By adding chitosan and borate buffer, the researchers were also able to enhance the fibers’ strength and adhesiveness. This ...

You have probably admired more than once the almost perfect beauty of spider webs. Do you know why they have a circular structure? There are several reasons for this. Today, scientists recognize about ...

Season: all year round. Usually found outdoors on walls, fencing and clutter around the garden, but most common in homes in autumn when males leave their webs to search for female spiders. Also common ...

Massive spider-webs stretching across trees and paddocks have formed near towns in Australia recently hit by floods. Residents in Victoria's Gippsland region say the gossamer-like veils appeared ...

It’s always a pleasure when I find inspiration in my backyard, as I did during our wet spell at the end of September.

Spiders have eight legs. Here comes another spider. It lives in a web. Spiders like to eat bugs, and this one has caught a woodlouse. Most spiders like to live on a web. They make the web out of ...

Spiders Web is a docu-fiction film that follows Spider, a 56 year old man from Toronto who is yet again facing jail time. His last hope of staying out of prison is finding Cougar, a woman he’s ...

Every kid who has read a comic book or watched a Spider-Man movie has tried to imagine what it would be like to shoot a web from their wrist, fly over streets, and pin down villains. Researchers ...

Jakob, Elizabeth M. 1993. Arachnophilia: Spiders in Ecological Webs . David H. Wise. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993. xiv, 328 pp., illus. $79.95 or £45 ...

Scientists have created artificial spider web silk that they say can be used to make ultra-strong bandages for treating chronic wounds. The silken bandages, developed by researchers at Nanjing ...