While most people think of spiders spinning webs to catch prey, the Scytodes makes use of a different tactic to paralyze ...

Spiders ingeniously consume their old webs to recycle vital proteins and nutrients, a process crucial for energy conservation ...

The purpose of stabilimenta within the web is unclear. They could help collect water, regulate a spider’s body temperature, ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room ...

MUSKEGON, MI – Walking into a sticky spider web can be a day wrecker, and Michigan’s woods are full of them. The clingy structures attach to faces and clothes and are a pain to remove. That stickiness ...

Spiders’ webs come in all shapes and sizes, from funnel webs to sheet webs and the classic orb web – the sort you imagine for ...

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