About half of the 27 spiders in the study got flies delivered to the vertical components of their webs — either above or below the web's center. The rest got flies on the right or left of the web.

Backyard Naturalist: The tangled webs of bridge spiders. Dana Wilde tries to unravel the mystery of spiders whose presence is known mainly on bridges or other structures overhanging water, ...

Tangle-web spiders are amazing weight-lifting engineers. They can snag prey 50 times heavier than themselves, like lizards and small mammals, using pulleys of stretchy silk.

Spider-Man has faced off against many a foe in his long and storied career, but none quite as sinister as the last two video games based on his adventures. After two excellent video game outings ...

The spider sits upside down under the bowl, protected by the flat web below it, and waits for prey to encounter the tangle lines and fall into the bowl. Then it chews through the bottom of the ...

When astronauts took a peek at the spiders' webs on Monday, they found a tangled concoction that was a far cry from the elegant symmetrical, creations of their eight-legged brethren on Earth. "The ...

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Scientists now know some spiders are smart enough to do both, bringing fresh meaning to the famous quote from poet Sir Walter Scott.

Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times their size. A study revealed 319 cases of such incidents involving over 40 spider species and 90 snake types worldwide. Tangle web spiders, orb ...

A tangled web they weave. Black Widow spiders belong to a family called ‘cobweb’, ‘tangle-web’, and/or ‘combfoot’ spiders. Their webs are constructed in a seemingly unorganized, ...