Why do spider webs have zigzag designs? New research reveals how they act like vibration alarms to help the spider sense its ...

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: ...

Did you know that spiders can make sounds and send messages to each other? They don’t do it like humans, who have vibrating vocal cords to produce sounds. Instead, jumping spiders are great dancers ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

Just as the weather starts to turn, the spiders begin to come out. Spider season has arrived for western Washington. “I moved from a place that had its fair share of different, more dangerous spiders, ...