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 ...

In their spare time, they have been developing a web-browser-based operating system called Orb. It is available for the princely sum of zero cheeseburgers and doesn’t need a high-spec machine to ...

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 ...

The fourth, Uloboridae, instead spins its web out of cribellate silk. Jan Beccaloni, the Museum's arachnid curator, says 'Cribellate silk is very woolly. It acts like Velcro, sticking to the legs and ...

If you see a small spider in a web that you've identified as belonging to a female golden silk orb weaver, that's likely her male counterpart. Since golden silk orb weavers look particularly ...

Mr Bay had been out for a night walk in western Singapore with some friends when one of them noticed the spider egg sac and ... browse photos of unclassified orb-weaving spiders – so named ...

In Britain, the list of spiders that could potentially cause health issues include the false widow, the tube web, woodlouse spider, cardinal spider, the walnut orb-weaver spider, wasp spider, black ...

the tube web, woodlouse spider, cardinal spider, the walnut orb-weaver spider, wasp spider, black lace-weaver, the cross spider, the giant house spider and cellar spider, lace-webbed spider ...