New research led by the University of Portsmouth has revealed that African social spiders—dubbed "hippie spiders" for their cooperative lifestyle—may not have distinct personalities after all.

Scientists suggest social spiders are more about going with the flow than sticking to a role, after new research challenges the idea of fixed personalities. New research led by the University of ...

New research has identified how social spiders evolved different ways of hunting in groups. Spiders are normally solitary creatures but a few species have evolved to be social and live in groups ...

A species of spider avoids cannibalising its siblings ... which could be a key piece to understanding the evolution of rare social spiders. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

Out of the more than 50,000-plus known spider species, biologists classify fewer than 80 as truly social. In the most complex, hundreds or even thousands of females spin a great airy silken city ...

Spiders are normally solitary creatures but a few species have evolved to be social and live in groups, known as colonies. While these spiders have evolved socially similar behaviours -- living in ...

However, the findings suggest that commonly used methods for assessing personality in social spiders may be flawed. Rather than demonstrating stable traits, the behaviour of Stegodyphus dumicola ...