Spider sense: Study tracks how web-building arachnids adapt to noise
Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, ...
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Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...
Everyone in the City Needs Soundproofing, Even Spiders
Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...
How a mystery spider’s candyfloss-like egg sac in Singapore spun a worldwide web of connections
An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...
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Urgent warning to Britons as Europe's largest SPIDER arrives in the UK: Venomous arachnid with 'huge appetite' hitches a ride on a delivery of olives
A Brit was in for a surprise when 'Europe's largest spider' – a venomous species with a 'huge appetite' – arrived with his delivery of olives. The Spanish funnel-web spider was spotted at a ...