This causes the web to stretch and form into a more cone-like appearance. Then, when the spiders spot a possible meal, they release the line, flinging—or slingshotting—the web and itself ...

Researchers from Binghamton University investigated how spiders listen to their environments through webs and found that the webs match the acoustic particle velocity for a wide range of sound ...

These spiders listen for prey before hurling webs like slingshots Ballistic webs can reach speeds of nearly 1 m/s to catch mosquitoes within 38 milliseconds.

Do spiders sleep? Yes, they do, and studies show that spiders have sleep phases very like those in mammals, and one of the phases is REM sleep.

The spiders are more than eight inches in length and “balloon” through the sky on long, silky webs, appearing to fly. And according to experts this spring, they were headed toward NYC.

Imagine a spider using the light of its trapped prey to catch even more food — sounds like a nature mystery! A team of ecologists in Taiwan have found that a special kind of spider called Psechrus ...