then leave the egg sac and disperse. The orb webs of these spiders are recognisable because a small sector in the upper part of the web is left open and free of spirals. When making the web, the ...

Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has come back out to play.

Spiders are larger and more visible in the Montreal area in the fall as they prepare to lay their eggs before the cold winter ...

The golden orb-weaver spider is found worldwide in tropical and subtropical ... After mating, the female spider will lay eggs in a silk sac and guard them fiercely until the spiderlings hatch. While ...

While the Joro spider hasn't officially made it to The Berkshires yet, Berkshire Community College professor of environmental ...

The study was inspired by the known fact that orb-weaver spiders have a particular affinity for fireflies, which they seem to keep alive while stuck in their web so that they can attract more ...

Our auditioned student Wind Ensemble performs, under the direction of Dr. Matthew Morse.

In their spare time, they have been developing a web-browser-based operating system called Orb. It is available for the princely sum of zero cheeseburgers and doesn’t need a high-spec machine to ...

Despite being completely non-threatening to humans, the golden orb weaver spider (Plesiometa argyra ... she injects a toxin into her chosen orb spider to paralyze it, then secures one egg to the ...

Earlier this year, USA Today reported that orb weaver spiders also have another interesting skill: Trapping a firefly and using its glowing bulb to attract even more insects. The study was ...

Leaves Are Beginning to Turn in coastal San Diego County’s riparian woodland and oak woodland habitats. The summer-green crowns of willows and sycamores are slowly fading to yellow and brown.