When prey falls into their web, these social spiders coordinate and attack their victim together, which allows them to take down much larger prey than they could if they hunted alone. Until now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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But new research has found some spiders are evolving to be more social. Just how social a spider is comes down to genetics, says Professor Alexander Mikheyev from the ANU Research School of Biology, ...

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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 ...