Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...

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 ...

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 ...

Small snakes and dragonflies fall victim to these webs, as do fierce flyers like horseflies. Golden silk orb weaver spiders are even one of the predators that can eat hummingbirds on rare occasions.

These hanging gossamer traps are more likely the handiwork of orb weaver spiders ... That being said, the brown recluse ...

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 ...