In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

Bullish (Video) Spider Anatomy: Eight Legs, Eight Eyes & Webs - Nature Documentary Posted: March 10, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025 The film discusses the characteristics and behaviors of ...

‘Most spiders have poor eyesight and rely almost exclusively on the vibration of the silk in their web for sensory information,’ said Beth Mortimer of the Oxford Silk Group who led the ...

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

In the rare instance where an insect's name truly epitomizes its nature ... rendering their webs a unique, albeit unruly, ...

Spiders build webs all year round, but autumn is the best time to spot them outdoors. Morning dew and mist droplets suddenly reveal a multitude of hidden webs that were previously virtually invisible ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs produce their effects ...

Season: all year round. Usually found outdoors on walls, fencing and clutter around the garden, but most common in homes in autumn when males leave their webs to search for female spiders. Also common ...