This phenomenon typically transpires following periods of high heat and fog. Spider colonies, comprising up to 500 members, work together to weave their webs in tree canopies or elevated structures.

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

More likely than not, the critter weaving a web on your ceiling is the former, but there’s nothing wrong with knowing the difference for your own peace of mind. Although they are rare ...

Those living in São Thomé das Letras in Brazil got to see a "rain of spiders", when the Parawixia bistriata creates an ...

The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

However, the biggest reason why most gamers play Spider-Man games is web-swinging. Updated on February 1st, 2025, by Melody MacReady: It's difficult to envision a Spider-Man game without excellent ...

A lot of the Silklab’s work is “bio-inspired” by spiders and silkworms, mussels and barnacles, velvet worm slime, even tropical orchids—so working out whether this sticky web could become ...

Your garden may simply be home to one of the many large garden spiders, which, despite their resemblance to Australia's notorious funnel-web spider, are not especially toxic nor aggressive.

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

The result is an astonishingly "Spider Man"-like silk that can be shot not unlike the superhero's wrist-mounted web shooters, as detailed in a paper published in the journal Advanced Functional ...