You have probably admired more than once the almost perfect beauty of spider webs. Do you know why they have a circular structure? There are several reasons for this.

Each summer, the air is filled with what looks like cottonwood down but is really a host of infant spiders, riding the wind ...

Do All Spiders Spin Webs? All spiders make silk, but only half of the known spider species spin webs. A spider’s silk is developed from spinnerets, glands that secrete a fine protein fiber that ...

The abdomen contains much of a spider’s web-making machinery, including the spinnerets and silk glands. Spinnerets are specialized organs that produce silk, enabling spiders to build webs.

While scientists have known about these spiders for over a century, there’s still much we don’t get about how they and their webs work to catch prey.