Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

Some spiders make fanciful additions to their webs. While theories abound, scientists remain stumped by the creations. Leave it to the spiders to do something that is compellingly beautiful and ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room ...

From pretending to be their prey’s prey (or their mate), to attracting prey with dazzling patterns, these tricky spiders don’t rely on their webs alone. Some jumping spiders (from the family ...

Archaeologists working on the Danish island of Bornholm discovered around 300 rocks engraved during the Stone Age. But archaeologists have no idea what the rocks may represent. The rocks are ...

Sometimes fireflies shouldn’t follow the light. A single flash from a female usually helps male Abscondita terminalis fireflies find her among tall grasses at dusk. Males are showier, giving off ...

The Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2016), pp. 182-193 (12 pages) Rubber plantations in Southeast Asia have expanded greatly in recent decades, thereby increasing the amount of edges bounding ...