These hanging gossamer traps are more likely the handiwork of orb weaver spiders ... rendering their webs a unique, albeit ...

A small spider with pale body and legs and silver-grey markings on the abdomen. It is usually found around the outside of houses and gardens, and is particularly common around windows. Because of ...

A member of the Araneidae family, the garden orb-weaver or garden cross spider (Araneus diadematus) is probably the best-known orb-web spider. True to its name, the garden orb-weaver is very common in ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

Prey stick to orb-weaver spider webs because their waxy outer layers mesh with spider silk to form a matrix glue. A team of physics students in the U.K. have worked out that spider silk could be ...

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin ... the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the strongest silks ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Oxford Silk Group, part of Oxford University in the UK, filmed a spider silk harvesting session. Golden Orb Weaver spiders produce up to 80 meters of ...

There are a few contenders for the strongest spider silk among which the golden silk orb-weaver gets the most attention ... [Peter Parker] loads into his web slingers. The variety comes from ...