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

Researchers exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals — including caffeine, marijuana, and Benzedrine — and noted how differently they spin webs under the influence of each.

Perhaps the most famous group of spiders that construct funnel-shaped webs is the Australian funnel-web spiders. There are 36 ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Dusty spider webs are associated with Halloween and creepy houses ... They create small, tangled meshes of cribellate silk, often building them over flower heads and under leaves, and also among leaf ...