Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...

Just before sunset, as baseball-sized tarantulas cross the road at Colorado’s Southern Plains Land Trust, two biologists quietly exit their car to scoop up a few of these eight-legged pedestrians.

Octopuses aren’t the only intelligent invertebrates out there. Portia is a spider that specialises in hunting other spiders. It locates its prey by sight from afar, thanks to a pair of enormous ...

Two different spider species — about 69,000 Tegenaria domestica, or common house spider, and 42,000 Prinerigone vagans — were living side by side and thriving. The behavior, which had never been ...

Across much of Australia, people start talking about “spider season” as the weather warms and webs seem to appear overnight in gardens, sheds, and corners of the house. At the same time, experts issue ...