In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

Sticky silk is a more recent evolutionary innovation. Sheet-building and net-casting spiders make their webs from cribellate silk. It is produced by many silk glands located under a flattened spinning ...

A groundbreaking study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln biologists has revealed that funnel-weaving spiders, also known as ...

Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...

Spinning the web from silk takes a spider quite a long time. This film has been speeded up. It takes a spider much longer than this to build its web. Spiders spin their webs round and round in a ...

Sticky silk is a more recent evolutionary innovation. Sheet-building and net-casting spiders make their webs from cribellate silk. It is produced by many silk glands located under a flattened ...