A new spider species named after Pink Floyd hunts insects near streetlights.

Flapping bees build up a charge of several hundred volts, enough to electrostatically draw pollen from a flower. But researchers have discovered a downside to being charged: it attracts spider silk ...

Spiders and insects are often considered pests. Some people would rather see the creepy-crawly creatures dead than buzzing around their heads or creating webs in the corners of their property. In part ...

UC Berkeley post-doctoral fellow Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez made an unusual discovery while playing with his daughter -- spider webs are especially good at catching insects that have built up an ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new ...

Researchers studying amber containing the larvae of Cretaceous insects reveal that immature lacewings likely specialized in killing spiders. They walked across spider webs with ease thanks to long, ...

Brown recluse spiders have a scary reputation, but the truth is more complicated than claims you see online. In Florida, ...

Spiders don’t make for easy prey. They are almost all venomous and almost all predatory. Many build webs whose silken lines ensure a sticky end for blundering insects. And those webs are, in a very ...

What happens when an insect touches a spider’s web? Most web-spinning spiders line their silken threads with droplets of glue, which snag blundering insects. But one group—the cribellate spiders—does ...