As skilled hunters, spiny orb-weaver spiders can capture prey with ease. The Sparassidae spider family includes the yellow-banded huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria). All around the world ...

This family of orb-weaving spiders often live ... Why do these male spiders catapult away from females? A male orb-weaver spider prepares to catapult away from a female after mating.

It acts like Velcro, sticking to the legs and bristles of captured insects.' A member of the Araneidae family, the garden orb-weaver or garden cross spider (Araneus diadematus) is probably the ...

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 ...

A spotted orb weaver is shown in its web Upcountry. It is one of approximately 205 species of spiders in Hawaii, of which an estimated 77 species have been introduced by people accidentally or ...

Golden silk orb weaver spiders are even one of the predators ... insect you want setting up shop in an area where you or your family members will be coming and going because their webs are so ...

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 ...