The prey, usually an insect, bumbles into the web, and the spider bites it, then wraps it in silk. It might start to eat the prey immediately, or cache it for later. The diving bell spider ...

They eat a variety of flying insects, but may also eat beetles or cockroaches. If you are in an area that has funnel web spiders, always wear shoes with thick soles. For activities like yard work ...

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the ...

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that lives in spider webs, eating the bugs that get stuck - including the spider that ...

Joros eat bees and the usual garden pests, such as ants, flies, mosquitoes and stink bugs. Larger Orb-web Weavers spiders have been known to prey on other creatures, such as centipedes ...

This is important because web-building uses a huge amount of energy for the spider. (Sometimes they eat the webs they’re done with, in fact.) This St. Andrew’s cross spider has gone the extra ...

It also meant that, if wolf spiders were regularly eating each other, the isotope analysis would likely rank them higher on the food web than the barcode-based method did. That's exactly what ...

Imagine yourself as a fly passing a web full of these wrapped-up ... carrying it away, and eating it. Even worse news for spiders: There's a whole family of flies--the Small Headed flies--whose ...

In this case, a joro spider web was strong enough to support a perching ... “They do have this aspect of their biology where they will just try and eat anything, which is one of the reasons ...

Imagine yourself as a fly passing a web full of these wrapped-up ... carrying it away, and eating it. Even worse news for spiders: There's a whole family of flies--the Small Headed flies--whose ...