Females are a dull brownish gray but — like their namesake, the peacock — male sparklemuffins pull out all the stops in the ...

Part of a new town in Kent was impacted by a spider’s habitat - A section of the Ebbsfleet Garden City project has been ...

Conservation charities have accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of making "misleading" claims that rare spiders had ...

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin, they can produce silk. Some species are known to spin fine threads as they leap, presumably to stabilize takeoff and ensure a more ...

Gravity-fighting Australian peacock spiders have been put through their paces in the name of science to understand how well ...

Other spiders, such as crab spiders in the family Thomisidae, are 'sit and wait' predators - for example Misumena vatia lurks on flower heads, waiting to ambushing visiting insects. Others, such as ...

Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to lead the ...