ARACHNOPHOBES, look away now – what might be the world’s biggest spider web has been found. Hidden deep inside a pitch-black cave is a mammoth web that houses upwards of 111,000 spiders, ...

Why do spider webs have zigzag designs? New research reveals how they act like vibration alarms to help the spider sense its ...

What was an itsy-bitsy spider spinning webs a few months ago is now a large, fully-grown exterminator helping keep the pest population under control. Is it peak spider season? Not necessarily, because ...

Scientists discovered the world's largest spiderweb, spanning 106 square meters in Sulfur Cave, Greece/Albania. This extraordinary colonial network houses an estimated 111,000 spiders from two species ...

The interactions between spider hosts and parasitoid wasps constitute a remarkable example of co‐evolution, where intricate behavioural and physiological modifications underpin the survival strategies ...

We see silken spider webs in all kinds of places — in a corner of the garage that hasn’t seen a broom in months, in a window that was unoccupied yesterday, among some forked twigs as densely packed ...