Some spiders make fanciful additions to their webs. While theories abound, scientists remain stumped by the creations.

Up close, they’re even more remarkable: webs woven into patterns so neat and geometric, they look what you’d get if Howard Roark mated with a tent-web spider.

Others, though, are square-shaped, etched with lines that might represents harvests, while some are etched with spider web patterns.

Nature doesn’t mess around when it comes to survival. One species of spider has come up with a hunting trick – using the ...

They then listened for patterns in the spider signals and recreated the sounds using computers and mathematical algorithms.

This same type of experiment has since been repeated and peer reviewed. One example is an article entitled, "The Effects of Neurotoxins on web-geometry and web-building behaviour in Araneus diadematus ...

A study that combines experimental observations of spider webs with complex computer simulations has shown that web durability depends not only on silk strength, but on how overall web design ...

On April 12, 2021, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported that they had translated the structure of a spider web into music, which could have implications for cross ...

Male fireflies that were trapped in the webs of orb-weaving spiders were found to switch their flashing patterns to look like those emitted by females, bringing all the boys to the yard.

In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly into its parlor, it seems to ...