If you see a small spider in a web that you've identified as belonging to a female golden silk orb weaver, that's likely her male counterpart. Since golden silk orb weavers look particularly ...

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 ...

Jerry (Tin Yuen) Tsang (Hong Kong) highlights a dewdrop spider as an orb weaver looms in the background. Jerry spent a day squatting under spider webs, his camera pointed up to the sky. The light ...

This exquisitely brocaded, vibrantly coloured shawl and cape are the world’s largest pieces of cloth to be made from spider silk. The silk was painstakingly harvested from more than one million female ...