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 ...

Some species are known to spin fine threads as they leap ... the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the strongest silks known.

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Oxford Silk Group, part of Oxford University in the UK, filmed a spider silk harvesting session. Golden Orb Weaver spiders produce up to 80 meters of ...