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" ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

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