The purpose of stabilimenta within the web is unclear. They could help collect water, regulate a spider’s body temperature, ...

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old ...

Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California's ...