You have probably admired more than once the almost perfect beauty of spider webs. Do you know why they have a circular structure? There are several reasons for this. Today, scientists recognize about ...

A subgroup of air-breathing, terrestrial (land) arthropods, spiders are not actually insects but rather belong to the Class ...

Looking around your home, you’ve surely seen a spiderweb or two in places like the ceiling, the attic, or in the basement. Many different kinds of spiders live in homes and buildings, the majority of ...

Two views of the slingshot spider; the the right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip. © Reproduced with permission of The Company of ...