The purpose of stabilimenta within the web is unclear. They could help collect water, regulate a spider’s body temperature, ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited ...

A study shows that spider web decorations help spiders locate prey by spreading vibrations across more silk threads.

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old ...

The tiny ray spider uses its web to grab its prey out of the air. Though common practice with comic book characters, this ability is unusual in spiders. So I'm thinking we've all seen a spider ...

Researchers have uncovered a unique hunting strategy of a slingshot spider or ray spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum). These stealthy hunters launch their "ballistic web" at unsuspecting prey. The ...

This high-velocity maneuver is a nightmare if you're a fly. There's a type of spider that can slowly stretch its web taut and then release it, causing the web to catapult forward and ensnare ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy ...

The new species is a kind of trapdoor spider, a spider known for creating borrows underground with hinged doors.

Gelanor siquirres, a species of pirate spider, descends from its dragline while pursuing prey in a Costa Rican rainforest. Credit: Gilbert Barrantes / Laura Segura Hernández / Diego Solano Brenes ...