A strange funnel-shaped web appears in the Arizona landscape, looking like something designed to catch more than just insects. The structure is an ambush trap, built to pull prey into a hidden tunnel ...

Healthy spiders never run out of silk. Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the spider that built them. Watching flies ...

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A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it ...