These Spiders Trick Their Predators with Ingenious Decoys Made from Silk and Debris
(A) The “spider-like decoy” stabilimentum of the first individual Cyclosa sp. observed in the Philippines. (B) The Cyclosa…
Those Strange Zigzag Decorations in Spider Webs Might Finally Have an Explanation
A northern St Andrew’s cross female spider in Australia building a web with X-shaped stabilimenta seen radiating from…
Scientists Found a Half-Male, Half-Female Spider in Thailand and It’s Fascinating
This spider is female on one side and male on the other due to a phenomenon called gynandromorphism.…
Spiders weave alarm system through web zigzags for prey detection
For decades, arachnologists debated the actual purpose of stabilimenta, a special thread spiders weave into their webs. Now,…