Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

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: ...

An orb-weaver spider’s web works by forming a barely visible, sticky net stretched across likely flight paths, such that flying insects accidentally crash into it, allowing the spider to eat them. The ...

It's a great time to see some midsummer happenings in nature. The warm days, often with scattered thundershowers at the end following an early morning of dew, keep us looking. My daily walks along the ...

The Joro spider has officially shipped up to Boston. The palm-sized, neon-yellow spider from Southeast Asia was first spotted weaving its signature web by a photographer on Beacon Hill this month.