Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, ...

A groundbreaking study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln biologists has revealed that funnel-weaving spiders, also known as ...

Surface tension causes the liquid silk to break into the sticky droplets. 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 ...

Asante kente is a cloth that embodies the cultural heritage and history of the Asante people. The Asantes are a major ethnic ...

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...

“When they spin silk out of their silk gland, spiders use their hind legs to grab the fiber and pull it out. That stretches ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, and when to worry about a bite, according to entomologists.

The height of sunflowers also attracts spiders! If you decide to plant sunflowers in your zone 2 through 11 garden, you'll ...

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 ...