Two species of spiders have been observed for the first time weaving larger “decoy” models of themselves to protect themselves from predators. The findings mark the first instance of any creature ...

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even spiders in their webs do it: cooperate for more peaceful colonies. That's one of the surprising findings of a new study by UCLA undergraduates of orb-weaving spiders in ...

A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers them with a web of silk and then covers the silk with regurgitated toxins.

Orb-weaving spiders cooperate for more peaceful colonies, a surprising revelation given that most spiders live solitarily. In the colonies that researchers observed, male spiders fought less with one ...