Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up glowing spider web or cobweb with dew hanging on the grass in the early morning. Golden sunrise shines on spider web and ...

These circular creations are made by a class of spiders called orb weavers that includes lots of common garden spiders. They adjust their design based on which insects they’re most likely to capture: ...

Several spider species build orb webs. These spiral wheel-shaped webs that often dot plants in the forest and the corners of our homes capture flying prey. They’re the iconic spider web shape you see ...

Sending spiders to space seems like a good idea (because, science), but arachnids apparently have their own notions about living in space. NASA researchers first sent spiders to space in the 1970’s, ...

You have probably admired more than once the almost perfect beauty of spider webs. Do you know why they have a circular structure? There are several reasons for this. Today, scientists recognize about ...

A Costa Rican pirate spider lives up to the family name: It tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their doom. Like any respectable pirate, pirate spiders have an ...

Deep beneath the border between Albania and Greece, a single spider web sprawls across rock like a living carpet, turning a ...

Have you ever heard of a spider that eats its own web? Chances are, you probably haven’t, but that is what Darwin’s bark spider is famous for. These spiders eat their own silk to produce more later, ...

Healthy spiders never run out of silk. Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the spider that built them. Watching flies ...