But European cave orb spiders (Meta menardi) anchor their webs to cave walls using twice as many silk strands, which appear to vibrate when tripped by unsuspecting crawlers, says Thomas Hesselberg ...

Cave spiders are a version of Minecraft spiders ... They are signified by the dense wall of cobwebs in a section of the mineshaft. They are neutral if under daylight or in light levels of 9 ...

Bermuda's Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world. Now, ...

This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior ... driving the normally shy spiders out of their lairs and webs to an exposed surface. Once there, the spider will die ...

Surprisingly, there is at least one species of wolf spider that is a troglobite (the animal form of troglodyte, meaning cave-dweller). These animals don't use webs but rather hunt down prey.

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When the arachnologist visited the cave system himself, he found horizontal webs strung between muddy boulders and a bunch of little spiders in the main chamber of the cave. “I didn't know what ...