The eight-legged spawn of the golden orb-weaver, when full-grown, is about the size of a human palm. "The most direct way to get rid of problematic spiders is to kill them," according to research ...

Spiders are great. They keep mosquitos at bay ... about a foot underground in a silk-lined burrow. The golden silk orb weaver ...

A small spider with pale body and legs and silver-grey markings on the abdomen. It is usually found around the outside of houses and gardens, and is particularly common around windows. Because of ...

Prey stick to orb-weaver spider webs because their waxy outer layers mesh with spider silk to form a matrix glue. A team of physics students in the U.K. have worked out that spider silk could be ...

Little did they know they were in for what Shamble says was “a huge surprise”: the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the ...