On a routine ocean exploration off the coast of Alaska, scientists stumbled upon an unexpected and puzzling discovery: a ...

As part of its ongoing conservation efforts London Zoo regularly runs a one-day course to help people with arachnophobia.

It usually takes around an hour for a spider to weave a web but this varies by species and by the type of web. If we take the classic orb web that we are all familiar with, there is usually a set ...

Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the ...

The Golden Silk Orb-Weavers, known for their impressive webs, shine quite literally with a golden hue. These spiders, mostly found in warmer ... silk feature is theorized to provide visual cues for ...

Sometime they also eat small animals like snails, baby birds, grubs, grasshoppers but they are not ... Talking about the look of Orb spiders they are hairy and have spiny legs. They are approximately ...

Depending on the size of the spider, prey can be anything from tiny insects to birds or rodents. Almost all spiders have two hollow fangs, which they use to inject venom into their prey. However, the ...

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 ...