Winter won’t hold forever, and when it comes, a spider will disappear from the corner where she has made her home.

Cobwebs and Christmas don’t seem to have much in common. But one legend, deeply rooted in Ukrainian tradition, brings them ...

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

Two Cyclosa orb weavers craft spider-shaped decoys from leaves, silk, and dead insects, tricking birds and lizards.

While most people flinch at the sight of a spider, Cal State Fullerton assistant professor of biological science Anna ...

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" ...

Liu, Jie, May-Collado, Laura, Pekár, Stano, and Agnarsson, Ingi. 2016. "A revised and dated phylogeny of cobweb spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae): A predatory Cretaceous lineage diversifying ...

Giant Jorō spiders are spreading across the US at an alarming rate, as scientists warn of unknown impact on local ecosystems.

Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania. The web in the "Sulfur ...

Although the word “spider” may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many readers, the true nature of these oft-feared critters is not as icky as one might suppose. Arachnids provide essential services for ...

‘Arachnid city’ thrives in total darkness, toxic fumes, and endless insect feasts Scientists have just uncovered what might be the world’s largest spiderweb, tucked away deep inside a sulfuric cave on ...

Learn more about how scientists uncovered an unlikely community of arachnids in Europe’s Sulfur Cave and why these spiders usually don’t live together. Spiders tend to be solitary creatures, so ...