When it comes to scary-looking spiders, you don't have to be an arachnophobe to find steering clear of the golden silk orb ...

Garofalo, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources in the Rutgers School of ...

The spiny orb-weaver spider, true to its name, boasts a rounded abdomen adorned with numerous spines, resembling the shape of a crab’s shell. These spines, often brightly colored in hues of ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has ...

Jerry (Tin Yuen) Tsang (Hong Kong) highlights a dewdrop spider as an orb weaver looms in the background. Jerry spent a day squatting under spider webs, his camera pointed up to the sky. The light ...

To meet the high metabolic demands of daily silk production, at least some spiders have developed a way to reuse their silk. Certain orb web-weaving spiders recycle their web proteins despite the fact ...