Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

Cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions are bad news for most animals, including spiders. But these creatures aren’t ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

Source: William Eberhard, used with permission. Spider webs can be beautiful, intricate, and deadly—but what can they tell us about the spiders who build them? There are over 3,100 species of ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

For many people, spiders are a minor nuisance, but for others, they’re a full-blown nightmare. While spiders can be found in ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...