Spider webs are as diverse as the spiders that make them. The orb web, made famous by orb weaver spiders, is a classic circular design with radiating spokes connected by spirals of silk.

If you ask a child to draw a spider’s web, this is what you will get! Orb webs have the classic circular net appearance and are visible in gardens on dewy mornings. Several types of spiders use ...

It usually takes around an hour for a spider to weave a web but this varies by species and by the type of web. If we take the ...

The spiders have a silver-grey coloured abdomen with a brown oak leaf pattern on the back. The legs are dark brown with light brown bands. The markings are somewhat variable. Its webs seem at first ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

Each type of silk gland is associated with a particular spinneret. No species has all seven, but orb-web weavers have five. Spiders have structures called spinnerets on their abdomen, usually on the ...

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

Only around 30 percent of male orb web spiders (Argiope bruennichi) survive their first act of mating because they are devoured by their mates. But new research published in Animal Behaviour suggests ...

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin ... the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the strongest silks ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

It usually takes around an hour for a spider to weave a web but this varies by species and by the type of web. If we take the classic orb web that we are all familiar with, there is usually a set ...