Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

The dawn is calm, 50 degrees and foggy. This is quite a change from the clear evening that we had last night. The weather service said this widespread fog would remain for the morning. I decide to ...

A green long-jawed orbweaver spider was spotted hunting on top of snow in the Northeast. They emerge from beneath the snowpack on warmer winter days to hunt for springtails. Their bright green color, ...

ENTMAIN copy 39088020348470 Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. "Spider webs are considered by many to be the most spectacular structures of the natural world. Their designs, their creation, and ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Nature’s orchestra is composed of the strings that hold the earth together. Without some of the earth’s most valuable players, like pollinators, arachnids, and many other living organisms, the melody ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the toughest materials known to science. That is, it can absorb massive amounts ...

Blossoms abound on the stems of these plants and at any time, hundreds of these five-petaled purple flowers are open. A crab spider uses phlox petals to do its hunting during a late summer day. Note ...