Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...

Discover spider insights from Dr. Echeverri, a science communicator, author, wildlife photographer, and spider expert.

Ever walked past a spider’s web and noticed it’s got zigzags woven through it? Congratulations! You have observed stabilimenta, a kind of “extra touch” that spiders weave into their webs that's made ...

One scenario is that the spider stands in one place (say, on a limb) and begins releasing a strand of the web material from ...