Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

‘Most spiders have poor eyesight and rely almost exclusively on the vibration of the silk in their web for sensory information,’ said Beth Mortimer of the Oxford Silk Group who led the ...

Of the 50,000 or so known spider species, most of them do not spin webs. They still produce silk though, and they use it for some of the other purposes we have outlined above. Spiders who do not ...

Funnel webs are solid sheets of silk - they look like a slightly dirty thin piece of fabric with a tunnel in one corner where the spider hides. Sheet webs look similar to funnel webs, but the ...