While not all spiders use silk to catch their prey or make webs, all spiders are capable of producing silk, with each using it in different ways, including web construction. Spider Silk Production ...

Spiders can continually produce silk as long as they are well-nourished and healthy, since silk production depends on their protein intake. Orb Weaver Webs ...

Discover how this Madagascar spider recycles silk proteins to create the largest and strongest webs in nature.

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer t… ...

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 ...

Take a walk through a forest, and you’re bound to come upon a spider web stretching from one tree branch to the next. The intricacy of the web can leave a person in awe, but what is even more ...

A tapestry woven with the silk of more than 1 million spiders has been put on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as scientists struggle to artificially replicate the ...