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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have bred spiders that weave red draglines, proving that the animals’ silk can be genetically re-engineered.

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 ...

Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own right. 'Silk is an amazing material,' says Jan Beccaloni, our ...

For long-jawed orb weaver spiders, love is a battlefield ... But catching prey isn’t the only thing her web is good for. She coats each strand of silk with pheromones that males find irresistible. So ...

The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 ...

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 ...