A newfound defensive tactic takes advantage of this idea: researchers documented spiders building giant spiderlike ...

Do you hate spiders? Their legs, their eyes, and oh man, their webs. Well, it turns out that they don’t like you much either. Imagine that you’ve stumbled into the belly of the beast, and now you're ...

The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure ...

ATLANTA — Not everyone would welcome a web of giant spiders outside their front door — but for Lee Guthrie, it’s a sight he’s grown to love. To the right of his porch, several Joro spiders have built ...

They’re big. They’re yellow, in part. And they’re invasive. But Joro spiders, now spinning their webs in carports and forests in South Carolina, are not as dangerous or as destructive as many of the ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...