That flashy female was in fact another male firefly, himself trapped in the web, and the spider may have manipulated his light beacon to lure you in. This high-stakes drama plays out nightly in ...

If ensnared in an orb weaver spider’s web, however, flashy males can become deadly decoys. Orb weaver spiders seem to trick male fireflies into blinking in a pattern more like females ...

A new study documents fighting and cannibalism between female joro spiders for the first time. But it’s unclear how this ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using ...