‘Most spiders have poor eyesight and rely almost exclusively on the vibration of the silk in their web for sensory information,’ said Beth Mortimer of the Oxford Silk Group who led the ...

Spiders build webs all year round, but autumn is the best time to spot them outdoors. Morning dew and mist droplets suddenly reveal a multitude of hidden webs that were previously virtually invisible ...

A groundbreaking study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln biologists has revealed that funnel-weaving spiders, also known as ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

Many materials made by nature (biomaterials) far surpass anything that humans ... Sheet-building and net-casting spiders make their webs from cribellate silk. It is produced by many silk glands ...

Many materials made by nature (biomaterials ... Sheet-building and net-casting spiders make their webs from cribellate silk. It is produced by many silk glands located under a flattened spinning ...