The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

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

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 ...

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

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

From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, ...

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 ...