Scientists have bred spiders that weave red draglines, proving that the animals’ silk can be genetically re-engineered.

In the light of the moon glimmering over just six square miles of a mountain range on O‘ahu, a little egg waited to hatch.

Spiders are known to learn about predators, prey, potential mates, and their overall environment from vibrations carried by their webs. Funnel-weaving spiders in particular connect their webs to ...

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed he will make a ruling about the continuation of Pete Rose's ban from baseball not long after he met with President Donald Trump to discuss the ...

A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn ...

Spider veins, which are red or blue, look like a spider’s web or tree branch. They are typically visible on the legs and face. Spider angioma or spider nervus is a common development of small ...

In the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, the Indian government is working at breakneck speed to ensure that Pakistan and its terror handlers are taught a lesson ...

Here, Daniel Rubinoff and colleagues describe a newly discovered Hawai'ian predatory caterpillar species –the "bone collector" – which lives exclusively within spider webs tucked into tree hollows and ...

(Rubinoff et al., Science, 2025) In the wild, a bone collector caterpillar will find an enclosed spider web – one that's safely concealed under tree bark, for example – and collect inedible pieces of ...

After hatching, the tiny insects live almost their entire lives in the web of a single spider, eating any weakened or recently deceased insects that have been caught by their host – all while ...

There it resides exclusively on cobwebs spun by spiders in logs and rock cavities. As the caterpillars skulk about the webs, they scavenge dead and dying insects and other arthropods ensnared in ...