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

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. By Adeel Hassan Even in a pitch-black cave, what appears ...

This is the first evidence of colonial behaviour in two common spider species and probably represents the largest spider web in the world. Researchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders ...

Deep inside a pitch-black chamber on the Albanian–Greek border, scientists have stumbled upon something straight out of a nightmare: the world’s biggest spider web. “This is one of the first examples ...

It’s the real world wide web. Romanian scientists realized every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare after discovering the “world’s biggest spider web”– complete with approximately 111,000 of the critters.

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