For spiders, foraging effectiveness influences size at sexual maturation, rate of maturation, and reproductive output. I discuss the correlation between size changes, the diversification of web ...

Polymer scientists and biologists have discovered that a house spider -- in order to more efficiently capture different types of prey -- performs an uncommon feat. It tailors one glue to ...

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 ...