The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

Why not make your garden walls work harder for you? Art has the power to transform an unassuming wall into a meadow of ...

Mid-month is a good time to prune hybrid rose bushes. Choose four to five main ... Roses will also benefit from establishing the soil food web around their root systems!. Need a break?

People didn’t notice at first. The steady tug of gravity has been with us so long — since the beginning of time, tens of ...

This is a remarkable book by a remarkable man. Based on the Coromandel coast at Chennai in south-eastern India, Yuvan Aves is ...

Tiny spiders weaving their intricate, beautiful webs adorn your shrubs and trees and, if you don’t have a garden, a short walk to a local park or nature reserve will present you with plenty of ...

Have you ever wondered why spider webs are so perfectly symmetrical? It’s not just for beauty—there’s a scientific reason ...

Your garden may simply be home to one of the many large garden spiders, which, despite their resemblance to Australia's notorious funnel-web spider, are not especially toxic nor aggressive.

The result is an astonishingly "Spider Man"-like silk that can be shot not unlike the superhero's wrist-mounted web shooters, as detailed in a paper published in the journal Advanced Functional ...

A lot of the Silklab’s work is “bio-inspired” by spiders and silkworms, mussels and barnacles, velvet worm slime, even tropical orchids—so working out whether this sticky web could become ...