While Joro spiders can bite if provoked, they are generally non-aggressive. The Georgia Department of Agriculture states that ...

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 ...

Orb-weaver spiders produce fine threads made of nanofibers, arranged like beads on a string with puffs and intermediate zones. The spiders have an organ called a cribellum, which pushes out silk ...

The UK is home to more than 650 different species of spiders, and although extremely rare in this part of the world, their bites could lead to dangerous ... the walnut orb-weaver spider, wasp ...

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 ...

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 ...

Its venom contains neurotoxins which could cause ... since the islands host the golden orb-weaver spider. It can spin webs that span more than a metre. Although the spider is scary to look at ...