Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 17—May is a month filled with nature happenings. The temperatures are warming, though frost still may be with us. May can be a ...

Spiders known for elaborate circular webs have altered their spinning style in dark spaces to create apparent tripwires for walking prey. Those that make circular webs are known as orb-weavers, and ...

A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds of Madagascar, Darwin’s bark spider spins silk tougher than Kevlar, a very ...

Scientists are developing nerve repairing surgical devices from the silk of spiders.

Once orb-weaver spiders ensnare male fireflies in their webs, they turn the doomed insects into bait, using their telltale flashing to lure in more meals. In a stretch of farmland in Hubei Province, ...

Spiders have been active since the weather began to warm in spring. They have grown and changed much but are still with us now as the summer season approaches the end. We tend to think of webs when it ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

May is a month filled with nature happenings. The temperatures are warming, though frost still may be with us. May can be a dry month, but typically we get showers. It is the beginning of our rainy ...