The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

The results provide evidence for the hypothesis that spiders crouch to sense differences in web frequencies to locate prey ...

Of the 50,000 or so known spider species, most of them do not spin webs. They still produce silk though, and they use it for some of the other purposes we have outlined above. Spiders who do not ...

A groundbreaking study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln biologists has revealed that funnel-weaving spiders, also known as ...

An article in a 1995 issue of NASA Tech Briefs discussed work done by researchers at Marshall Space Flight Center to see how various substances — including caffeine — affect spider web patterns.

Black widows are solitary year-round except during this violent mating ritual. These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with hundreds of eggs. Spiderlings disperse soon ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...