Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden ...

Invasive Joro spiders have been found to have specialized silk-making glands that allow them to spin their super-strong webs.

There are more than 45,000 known species of spiders on Earth and while all of them can spin silk only about a quarter of these species weave those elaborate, spiral webs we are familiar with.

How are spiders able to move so quickly along their webs without getting their legs entangled? Jane Monroe, Arcata, California, US In a web spun by an orb weaver spider, the silk comes in sticky ...

Evolution can discard an adaptation as well as create it. Perhaps the gem of spider evolution is the super-strong insoluble silk on which spiders swing and with which they weave their webs.

Do you ever get distracted during the homily in church? I try very hard to pay attention because I know that the priest is trying to dispense a message for my welfare, but we recently had a ...

Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden ...