In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders responded differently ...

This suggests that a spider's past exposure to environmental noise—and possibly its genetic makeup—shapes its web-building flexibility. "One of the most interesting things that we found is ...

Spinning the web from silk takes a spider quite a long time. This film has been speeded up. It takes a spider much longer than this to build its web. Spiders spin their webs round and round in a ...