A yellow garden spider turns a live cricket into a silk-wrapped bundle in the time it takes to blink, and what happens next ...

Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden.

I’ve found this beauty the last few years waiting for her dinner on her web woven on my Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia). Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae and are the most ...

This essay is part of Finding Beauty, a series on discovering joy in the unexpected. When I was a teenager, my family lived deep in the hills of a tiny country village overlooking Montego Bay. It was ...

"Orb-weaving spiders can avoid heat by spinning webs in the shade or changing their posture. Shall we take a look at how spiders cope with heat in the city?" On 6 June, the 14th field training session ...

The new orb-weaver species was one of three significant discoveries made during a survey at Ecuador’s Tiputini Biodiversity Station, researchers said. Photo by Madeline Hogan via Unsplash Deep in the ...

An orb-weaver spider wraps a male firefly in silk while it flashes from its lanterns. Male fireflies typically signal with multiple pulses using two lanterns, while females emit single pulses from one ...

A silver Argiope spider in a spiderweb with stabilimenta. Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons When imagining a spider web, chances are most people envision a typical spiral, wheel-shaped ...

Sometimes fireflies shouldn’t follow the light. A single flash from a female usually helps male Abscondita terminalis fireflies find her among tall grasses at dusk. Males are showier, giving off ...