A species of "social" spider hunts in packs among webs woven by thousands of creatures, scientists have found. Scientists with the University of Toulouse and the French National Center for Scientific ...

Last week, spiders descended in droves upon a town in southern Brazil – literally. When 20-year-old web designer Erick Reis left a friend's house on Sunday, he saw what looked like thousands of ...

Scientists have discovered a terrifying species of spiders that hunt in packs. Most adult spiders prefer to live their lives alone, like the Joro spiders spreading across the southeastern U.S. However ...

Spiders living together in colonies of tens of thousands can go extinct from sharing food equitably, finds new research. Spiders living together in colonies of tens of thousands can go extinct from ...

The lady-bug-sized spiders live in colonies of thousands are rarely leave the safety of their web. Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons While most spiders live a solitary life, Anelosimus eximius ...

It's usually the lion that's known for hunting in packs, using coordinated movements to ambush its unfortunate prey. But a new study shows how a species of spider, called Anelosimus eximius, similarly ...

Within the 50,000 known species of spiders about 20 have developed a permanent social life characterised by a remarkable cooperation 1. Among these, one or two species hunt "in packs", such as the ...

Web vibrations help them coordinate when to strike. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pack hunting spiders exist in places other ...

It sounds like the plot of the world's tiniest horror movie: deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly discovered species of wasp transforms a 'social' spider into a zombie that abandons its colony to do ...

Scientists have found that a species of spider stalks their prey in large "synchronised" attacks in giant spider webs! That's according to a new study by researchers from the University of Toulouse ...

To catch preys that are hundreds of times heavier than they are, the 'Anelosimus eximius' weave huge webs collectively and move in unison. This observation is not new. At the end of his trip to South ...