Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...

But “spidder-webbing” may be the most toxic dating trend yet. “Spider-webbing” is the colloquial name for a collection of ...

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

A massive 1,140 sq ft spider web was found in Sulphur Cave (Albania/Greece) hosting 111,000 spiders from two species, *Tegenaria domestica* and *Prinerigone vagans*. Scientists found that the two ...

This is the first evidence of colonial behaviour in two common spider species and probably represents the largest spider web in the world. Researchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders ...

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Deep inside a pitch-black chamber on the Albanian–Greek border, scientists have stumbled upon something straight out of a nightmare: the world’s biggest spider web. “This is one of the first examples ...

Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web ...

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A new study in PLoS One has revealed that the mysterious silk decorations in some spider webs may be sophisticated tuning devices that enhance the spider’s ability to locate its next meal by ...