Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs.

When it comes to scary-looking spiders, you don't have to be an arachnophobe to find steering clear of the golden silk orb weaver (Trichonephila clavipes) to be a good idea. Sometimes called ...

filmed a spider silk harvesting session. Golden Orb Weaver spiders produce up to 80 meters of silk at a time. Produced by Kevin Reilly. Video courtesy of Oxford University. Follow TI: On Facebook ...

A male long-jawed orb weaver spider uses his huge jaws to avoid getting ... She coats each strand of silk with pheromones that males find irresistible. So when he’s searching for a mate ...

There are a few contenders for the strongest spider silk among which the golden silk orb-weaver gets the most attention, but the black widow’s webbing is nearly as strong, and [Justin] is happy ...

Jan Beccaloni, the Museum's arachnid curator, says 'Cribellate silk is very woolly. It acts like Velcro, sticking to the legs and bristles of captured insects.' A member of the Araneidae family, the ...

In order to mate, a male long-jawed orb weaver spider has to hook his huge jaws into those of a ... She coats each strand of silk with pheromones that males find irresistible. So when he’s searching ...