A study shows that spider web decorations help spiders locate prey by spreading vibrations across more silk threads.

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited ...

F or decades, arachnologists debated the actual purpose of stabilimenta, a special thread spiders weave into their webs. Now, ...

Ever walked past a spider’s web and noticed it’s got zigzags woven through it? Congratulations! You have observed stabilimenta, a kind of “extra touch” that spiders weave into their webs that's made ...

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old ...

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven patterns that are typically made of a different kind of silk than ...

Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.

Romanian scientists realized every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare after discovering the “world’s biggest spider web”– complete with approximately 111,000 of the critters. The impressive feat of ...

The next time you're sweeping cobwebs out of the corners, take a moment to appreciate the elaborate designs of these sticky bug traps Spider webs are mostly considered an annoyance. Things to be swept ...

Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided ...