My partner held a photography workshop at our house a couple of weeks ago. This involved 27 people stalking our native wildflower and vegetable gardens in search of prey for their cameras. One of the ...

A study shows that spider web decorations help spiders locate prey by spreading vibrations across more silk threads.

“Don’t use that door,” I told my husband as he was about to go outside. “You’ll break the spider’s web.” “What web?” he asked absentmindedly, adding that he’d already gone out and come back through ...

Researchers used computer models to simulate if and how these features influence prey affect vibrations of orb-weavers' webs ...

The Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 371-383 (13 pages) Two species of orb-web spiders, Argiope aurantia Lucas and Argiope trifasciata (Forskal) were used to analyze how ...

F or decades, arachnologists debated the actual purpose of stabilimenta, a special thread spiders weave into their webs. Now, ...

Many spider species build spiral wheel-shaped webs – orb webs – to capture prey, and some incorporate so-called “stabilimenta ...

This study was undertaken to describe the web orientation, stabilimentum structure and predatory behavior of Argiope florida Chamberlin & Ivie 1944 (Araneae, Araneidae, Argiopinae), a virtually ...

Robinson, Michael H. 1979. "Specialists and Generalists: the Ecology and Behavior of Some Web-Building Spiders from Papua New Guinea, I. Herennia ornatissima, Argiope ocyaloides and Arachnura melanura ...

Emerging from the overhanging canopy, our ravening eyes consumed a castle wreathed in low mist. Ruined, it rose against a silver sky where ravens screeched, jade retro data glancing off gliding wings.