Looking for something that's both a little sweet a...  ...this delightful no-bake torte that not only has a spider web pattern, but also reveals a bloody surprise when...

A spider web in the north Dallas suburb of Lakeside Park passe...  ...as a football field and up to 40 feet high. Can a spider really spin a web that size? No, but hundreds of spiders can, if they cooperate with each other.Most *strong...

Rob from the What Is It? blog was walking in the p...  ...was walking in the park this morning and found a spiderweb that’s a bit unusual. It has a stabilimenta...  ...;s a stabilimenta? It’s a decoration that a spider adds to its web , for several possible reasons,...

A spider built a web in a spot where there wasn’t an easy third...  ...The weight of the rock, suspended by a strand of spider silk, provides an adequate third anchor point, at...  ...r reverseloop took pictures instead. How did the spider...

[https://vimeo.com/54087004] (vimeo link)By taking...  ...l was able to contract a time-lapse sequence of a spider constructing a web . The video covers an hour and a half of work. Tha...

Think of it as the reverse teflo...  ...of it as the reverse teflon question: if spider webs are so sticky, how come spiders don't stick to them? Scientists have now s...  ...camera and a microscope to record the spiders in minute detail....

If you like Johan Rijpma's scotch tape animation Tape Generations we featured on the blog, you'll get a kick out of this: a gigantic cocoon made from packing tape by design collective For Use/Numen:...

The floods in Pakistan devastated not only the h...  ...ion of that country, but much of its fauna. Many spiders survived only by crowding into trees, producing p...  ...han a fifth of the country submerged, millions of spiders climbed into trees to escape the rising floodwate...  ...o recede, the trees became...

Three years ago, Alex linked to a story about a spider web that was 200 yards wide. It was made by many spiders sharing the same web . Scientists recently discovered a spider in Madagascar that can individually create a *strong class="m...

The art collective For Use/Numen created a gia...  ...The art collective For Use/Numen created a giant spider web out of packing tape: At the last installation...  ...nk via DudeCraft | Photo: Fast Company | Artists' Website