For many people, the sight — or even the thought — of a spider in a spider web gives them the chills. Even without full-on arachnophobia, the prospect of bumping into a spider web in your yard or ...

Unless you’re an arthropod admirer, like me, it’s not uncommon to panic if you see a web in the corner of your porch or kitchen ceiling. The good news is that most spiders in US homes and yards are ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

The Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare that is set off by ants of one species only. The power is in the ...

Orb webs look a bit like a dart board. ©Donna Bollenbach/Shutterstock.com Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the ...

A newly identified Australian spider uses a spring-loaded silk snare to hurl green tree ants into its web at accelerations of 140 G, a study in Current Biology finds.

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

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A newly discovered spider uses an ingenious method to launch its prey into the air, named after an ancient Roman weapon. The ballista spider was discovered in the rainforests of Far North Queensland.