Brown widow spiders protect their egg sacs by capturing and killing parasitic wasps and constructing silk spikes. The tactics ...

Valeria Arabesky and colleagues at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found that invasive brown widow spiders effectively defend their egg sacs against wasp parasites. The spiders use multiple ...

Gene-edited spiders had never been seen before. Then University of Bayreuth researchers used CRISPR Cas-9 to give spiders red ...

[Shutterstock/Courtesy] Israeli researchers have discovered that brown widow spiders, a global invasive species, aggressively defend their egg sacs from parasitic wasps, offering insights into how ...

Indian scientists at ZSI have pioneered a groundbreaking method using DNA metabarcoding to decode spider-parasitoid relationships directly from egg sacs. This innovative approach, published in ...

While spiders can be beneficial to have in your home (they eat other insects, after all), they can be unsightly and ...

To overcome these hurdles, the researchers developed a novel CRISPR solution containing the gene sequence for a red fluorescent silk protein and injected it into unfertilized spider eggs.

He said: “The families known for attaching their egg sac to a banana are harmless to humans. "These small spiders sometimes build their nest on a banana because the fruit provides a safe and ...

A second added: 'That looks like a spider's egg sack. Put in a bag and tie it. I would take it back.' Another replied: 'This happened to me last year, bought some bananas and got a free spiders ...

A "bone collector" caterpillar sits in a cobweb with a spider and its egg sac. The newly discovered moth species disguises itself as a larva by covering itself with insect parts. Daniel Rubinoff ...

Gail Samko's Australian Shepard-cattle dog mix, Rio, spots a spotted lanternfly egg sac mass on a tree Monday, May 5, 2025, in Cleveland Metroparks' Garfield Park Reservation in Garfield Heights ...