BALTIMORE, M.D. (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) – Researchers at Johns Hopkins University took on a task to discover precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and ...

These circular creations are made by a class of spiders called orb weavers that includes lots of common garden spiders. They adjust their design based on which insects they’re most likely to capture: ...

The Cat, Nick and Sally get stuck in a web, and meet Mabel the Spider. The Cat, Nick and Sally get stuck in a web, and meet Mabel the Spider.

You have probably admired more than once the almost perfect beauty of spider webs. Do you know why they have a circular structure? There are several reasons for this. Today, scientists recognize about ...

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

Ovid’s Metamorphoses speaks of the orb-weavers, said to be descendants of Arachne, a figure in Greek mythology who wove beautiful tapestries and dared to challenge Athena to a weaving contest. Angry ...