A family of spiders can catch prey many times their own weight by hitching silk lines to their quarry and hoisting the meaty prize up into the air. Tangle web spiders, in the Theridiidae family, are ...

The black-and-yellow argiope is a particularly attractive and large species of orb-weaving spider. It is the largest orb weaver in the garden. Actually, only the female is large, the males being much ...

It helps to know a little about the brown recluse to fully understand the discovery about what makes the silk of this particular spider so strong. An international collaboration between William & Mary ...