“It’s pretty impressive.” After a male firefly gets stuck in a spider's web, the spider gets the bug to flash the magic light ...

Well, sort of. More accurately, they’re trying to make use of one of the greatest assets that spiders have to offer—their webs. According to a recent study published in the journal iScience ...

When fresh, it has a lace-like appearance and a bluish colour, and it is very sticky. The web is spun by night, but the spiders are ready to respond to any insect stuck in it at any time of day.

On closer inspection a quadrant is always missing, which gives rise to its common name of the missing sector orb web spider. This spider feeds on almost any flying insect captured within its web. As ...

These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon ... To feed, black widows puncture their insect prey with their fangs and administer digestive enzymes to the corpses.