Surface tension causes the liquid silk to break into the sticky droplets. It usually takes around an hour for a spider to weave a web but this varies by species and by the type of web. If we take the ...

What Happens If Spiders Build Mega Cities! Posted: February 23, 2025 | Last updated: February 23, 2025 Imagine a world where spiders work together to build massive webbed cities.

Experts say recent wet weather conditions may have created the perfect storm for funnel-web spiders to thrive. NSW residents are being told to remain on alert for the deadly arachnids with the ...

How do spiders make such intricate webs? Don’t get too tangled up about it. In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian host, Eric Schulze, weaves his way to the answer. Explore Subscribe ...