From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

Forget iPhones or Nintendo Switches, children in parts of the Philippines rely on a completely different source of entertainment. Hint: it involves a venomous animal.

Well, at least you probably won’t die! Be careful while walking on Lamma and Lantau at night, since the islands host the golden orb-weaver spider. It can spin webs that span more than a metre.

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

The protein used to make the silk is a precious resource for the spider so it is not surprising that they do not want to waste it. Some orb weavers ingest their silk and systematically dismantle their ...

A bite from a brown recluse spider, or Loxosceles reclusa, can be mild or severe and may require medical attention. The toxins from this spider’s bite can cause tissue death. Bites from the ...

Beautifully weird and astonishingly intricate. And the banana spiders of South Carolina are no exception. An encounter with a golden orb weaver or a Banana Spider. Take a closer look. One of your ...