Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

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

People often imagine spiders spinning endless webs without ever running out of silk, but their bodies don’t work like a […] ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

When temperatures drop, critters outside may come into your home looking for warmth. If you see more spiders than usual ...

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" ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the ...

Brown recluse spiders are small and quite shy, but capable of delivering deadly bites. Learn about what to do if you get ...

Black widow spiders are a scary site and the venomous females bite when threatened. You'll need to gear up and use this humane method to safely remove them.

Joro spiders have been spotted in areas across the county, but what are these invasive creatures? When will they be returning? Will they be expanding? While the Joro spider season, which spans from ...

CHRISTMAS trees could be crawling with thousands of spiders, flies and creatures, an expert has warned. But there are several ...

And they’ve been spotted in Pennsylvania before. USA Today reports that the Joro spider — those rather large, black-and-yellow arachnids native to Asian countries like Japan that can move around by ...