Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

Have you ever entered a seldom-used room, only to be met by an unexpected web clinging to your face? Or perhaps during an early morning walk, you’ve paused to admire the delicate artistry of a web, ...

The ogre-faced spider earns its name from its large eyes and mandibles. Jay Stafstrom / Cornell University The ogre-faced spider’s huge eyes and nocturnal vision were thought to be its greatest ...

There are more than 50,000 species of spiders in the world, of all different sizes. They live in a wide range of habitats and ...

Funnel web spiders are a group of spiders that belong to the Dipluridae family in the order Araneida. They get this name from the shape of the web that they weave. Since there are several varieties of ...