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 ...

Upon an Arc of White. The “writing spider” aka yellow garden orb-weaver (Argiope aurantia) is the beloved spider in the well-known children’s story “Charlotte’s Web.” The black and ...

Little is known about the night-time habits of tiny creatures all around us. Take the jumping spider — it mysteriously can spend much of the night suspended in mid-air, hanging by a thread.

Black Widow Spider spinning her web – stock photo (Credit: Mark Kostich/Getty Images) ... These spiders are most active at night and can typically be found in basements and home garages.

“Recent studies have explored how spider webs can detect sounds from across a room. And how spiders construct and tension their webs may be influenced by the prey (and other things) they can ...

People across Acadiana have been asking about the large spider webs that appear to be falling from the sky. So, we turned to LSU Ag Center’s Dr. Stephen Baca for answers to the mystery.

The measurements the Davises took found that the jorō webs could hold an object weighing up to 2.4 ounces (69 grams). That means one should easily support a cardinal, a bird that typically weighs ...