A male firefly is caught in the web of an orb-weaving spider, Araneus ventricosus. Researchers believe that these spiders may manipulate the bioluminescent signals that fireflies use to find mates.

Dan-Dan Zhang received funding from Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet I Lund on spider research. Gabriele Uhl received funding for exploring the chemical sense of spiders from the German Science ...

Through anchored phylogenomic analyses, this important study offers fresh insights into the evolutionary history of the plant diet and geographic distribution of Belidae weevil beetles. Employing ...

The marbled orb-weaver (Araneus marmoreus), sometimes referred to as the pumpkin spider, is the most common orange spider. The female is easily identifiable by its bulbous abdomen, which is bright ...

In China, the common orb-weaving spider, Araneus ventricosus, hijacks the light signals of fireflies to lure prey to its web. Fireflies use glowing pulses to communicate, especially during mating ...

Researchers had suspected that the orb-weaving spider Araneus ventricosus might use trapped male fireflies’ light for their own gain. To test this, Xinhua Fu at Huazhong Agricultural University ...

Once orb-weaver spiders ensnare male fireflies in their webs, they turn the doomed insects into bait, using their telltale flashing to lure in more meals. In a stretch of farmland in Hubei ...

Wolf spiders inhabit gravel, stream edges, and low vegetation. ©Cathy Keifer/Shutterstock.com The wolf spider is one of the brown spiders in New Mexico, and they live solitary lives, generally roaming ...

Located in Russia, Lake Baikal is a clear and mesmerizing freshwater lake known by natives as the ‘Blue Eye of Siberia’. It is also the largest lake in Russia, containing 5,670 cubic miles of water.

The most common types you will come across are the house spider (Eratigena atrica) and the garden orb weaver spider (Araneus diadematus) – the latter are the ones that make those intricate webs ...

Spiderwebs are astonishingly complex constructions for objects that are so delicate. Even if webs don't literally spell out the words "terrific" and "radiant" like those in the book "Charlotte's ...

All the way back in 1973, two European garden spiders (Araneus diadematus) went to space in the first US space station Skylab, as part of NASA Skylab Student Experiment Competition. No photographs ...