Season: all year round. Usually found outdoors on walls, fencing and clutter around the garden, but most common in homes in autumn when males leave their webs to search for female spiders. Also common ...

Spiders are really quite fascinating creatures, albeit borderline creepy. To imagine one spinning such a large and intricate web in a matter of just a few hours is nothing short of amazing.

Jakob, Elizabeth M. 1993. Arachnophilia: Spiders in Ecological Webs . David H. Wise. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993. xiv, 328 pp., illus. $79.95 or £45 ...

Spider Webs and Drugs The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs ...

Adult females are 6-7 mm long (ignoring legs), and males are 3.5-5 mm long. The spiders have a silver-grey coloured abdomen with a brown oak leaf pattern on the back. The legs are dark brown with ...

The male black widow spider tends to be smaller. Black widow spider webs tend to be messy and asymmetrical in appearance. These can typically be found low to the ground since the black widow ...

Late summer is a critical time for pest control, making it essential for homeowners to adeptly recognize the subtle ...

but the pair soon find themselves at the centre of a complicated and growing web of conspiracy that extends from corrupt government figures to spies.

Accumulating evidence supports the hypothesis that a relative shortage of prey affects growth and fecundity of web-building spiders by acting as a density-independent limiting factor. Thus, though ...

Massive spider-webs stretching across trees and paddocks have formed near towns in Australia recently hit by floods. Residents in Victoria's Gippsland region say the gossamer-like veils appeared ...

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Scientists now know some spiders are smart enough to do both, bringing fresh meaning to the famous quote from poet Sir Walter Scott.

While Spider-Man may have developed superhuman abilities from a spider bite, our pets are not likely to start slinging webs or crawling up the walls if bitten by an arachnid.