Over here are the wolf spiders; over there the builders of underground funnel webs, as well as the orb weavers and black widows. Because the researchers could draw on so many more genes and ...

This is small compared to the several ... but is sufficient to allow a bee to electrostatically draw pollen off a flower before landing. To test his spider web hypothesis, Ortega-Jimenez sought ...

In Nebraska, officials with the Nebraska Wildlife Education group are warning residents that fake spider webs can entangle hummingbirds, owls, butterflies, bees and small critters. "Often ...

The whole process requires five different kinds of spider silk—four to make the web and snares, and one to bind the paralyzed roach, per Live Science. The strategy is one way that small spiders ...

An island spider decides which of its three kinds of webs to make depending on location ... it helps the tiny spiders thrive on such a small, isolated island, he says. “It seems they adapt ...

You might call it a web of deceit: the webs made by one spider exploit a visual effect to entice nocturnal insects, which then become stuck in the silky threads. Such “lure and trap” dual ...

There are more than 47,000 species of spiders, and all spin silk webs to provide housing and catch food. Scientists say the silk from a spiderweb is five times stronger than steel. The living ...