Have you ever heard of a spider that eats its own web? Chances are, you probably haven’t, but that is what Darwin’s bark spider is famous for. These spiders eat their own silk to produce more later, ...

Healthy spiders never run out of silk. Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the spider that built them. Watching flies ...

These circular creations are made by a class of spiders called orb weavers that includes lots of common garden spiders. They adjust their design based on which insects they’re most likely to capture: ...