Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room ...

Photo: Min-Hui Liu Deep in the forests of Southeast Asia lives a silver-colored orb-weaving spider that decorates its web with a silky spiral pattern ... to blend in to the background of the ...

Some spiders make fanciful additions to their webs. While theories abound ... spends a lot of metabolic energy in the making of the patterns. So one thing seems certain, it's not a frivolous ...

In the videos, the spiders appear ghostly white on a black background, and their legs twitch in what seems to be no particular pattern. The web itself is invisible, as the infrared light is set up to ...