You'll want to keep an eye out for the unique webs that brown recluse spiders are known to make as you rid your home of these ...

Some of nature’s most mesmerizing works of art might just be hanging in your backyard. The artist is an orb weaver spider.

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

Jumping spiders of the genus Portia exhibit remarkable hunting skills, retaining visual information about prey even when ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...

The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged hunters to find their next meal.