Not all silk is used for making webs, some spiders use it as a drag line. Others create parachutes for travel over larger ...

How do spiders make such intricate webs? Don’t get too tangled up about it. In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian host, Eric Schulze, weaves his way to the answer. The Art of Sausage ...

Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...

She was turned into a spider in her afterlife, and goes on to create beautiful webs, or so the tale tells us. Webs are tools of creation in mythology as well as material science. Spider silk is ...

Walking into a spider web might make you panic, even if it’s only a few feet wide. Now imagine colliding into one over 80 feet long. That’s unlikely, but thanks to the Darwin’s bark spider ...

Spiders like to eat bugs, and this one has caught a woodlouse. Most spiders like to live on a web. They make the web out of strong silk. Spinning the web from silk takes a spider quite a long time.