Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

The female equivalents, however, are a different story ... However, as the female recluse spiders stay close to their webs, ...

Over the course of 100 different experiments, they discovered a very clear pattern of attack for the spiders. Even when a mosquito was placed directly into the cone of a spider’s web ...