Spiders Are Wonderful is a story by Toby Vok, labeled as...

The floods in Pakistan devastated not only the h...  ...ion of that country, but much of its fauna. Many spiders survived only by crowding into trees, producing p...  ...han a fifth of the country submerged, millions of spiders climbed into trees to escape the rising floodwate...  ...national development report...

[caption id="attachment_42783" align="alignleft" w...  ...9-2010 Mazda 6 vehicles in the United States. The spiders weave their webs in the evaporative canister vent...  ...ubes, remove webs and insert a spring to keep the spiders out. Link

Three years ago, Alex linked to a story about a sp...  ...web that was 200 yards wide. It was made by many spiders sharing the same web. Scientists recently discov...  ...the discovery with colleagues. That allows the spiders to catch insects flying over water, and explains...

Hey, don't eat that tarantula just yet! Apparentl...  ...et! Apparently, when mixed with rice wine, these spiders make a good cocktail: The arachnophobe’s nig...  ...and work as an aphrodisiac.[...] The trade for spiders as food has been in effect since the 1970's in Ca...  ...have tourists been findin...

Many people find spiders terrifying, but they have a convenient shape for...  ...obot stability. Wired has a gallery of 13 robotic spiders built for all kinds of purposes from art to war t...

To give them their proper name, stabilimenta are q...  ...imenta are quite literally web decorations. Some spiders , once their webs are complete, choose to further...  ...habits.http://scienceray.com/biology/zoology/the- spiders

The robotics lab at Ben Gurion University in Israel has created a robot that walks on the ceiling. SpiderBot has suction cups tethered to the ends of its four legs.  It aims a leg at a spot on the ceiling, then sho...

Bowen, Australia, a town about 700 miles from Bris...  ...of eastern tarantulas, also known as "bird-eating spiders ". Dozens of spiders have crawled out of gardens and have made their w...  ...the town. While not deadly like other Australian spiders , the eastern tarantulas ar...

36 hours after drowning, wolf spiders were able to revive themselves and suffered no il...  ...he University of Rennes in France found that wolf spiders died after 24 to 36 hours of being immersed in wa...  ...t when the scientists came back to weigh the dead spiders , they fou...