Spiders get a lot of credit for being neat. With their perfect little webs, strung delicately, repaired fastidiously, they ...

Before you go exploring in your backyard, you should definitely take some precautions because two small yet deadly spiders ...

A tethered mosquito approaches the web in the path of release of the cone, and triggers web release response. Credit: S.I. Han and T.A. Blackledge, 2024. Ray spiders deploy an unusual strategy to ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of an antivenom in 1981, despite the 30 to 40 recorded funnel-web bites ...

That's the family of scorpions, spiders, and ticks. They're so small, you may only spot the fine silk webs from spider mites. They use a pair of glands near their mouth to spin the fine silky web.

While the cross spider’s web is seen in vegetation as often as buildings, bridge spiders get their name from their presence mainly on bridges or other structures overhanging water, where small ...

Spiders of this family can be mere inches; the smallest Patu digua spider was recorded at 0.014 inches, while the Samoan moss spider can be as small as 0.011 inches long.