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Witness an orb-weaving spider using silk wrappings to immobilize grasshopper prey
A black-and-yellow argiope (Argiope aurantia) capturing a grasshopper in...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Do we really swallow spiders in our sleep?
This myth is based on a web of lies.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Know how some spiders walk on the surface of the water
Learn how some spiders move across the surface of water.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn how scientists imitated specific spider fibers to better handle sticky nanofibers
Description of the use of spider combs.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
See a Selenops arboreal hunting spider's unique ability to glide and steer
Watch a Selenops arboreal hunting spider using its unique ability to steer...
Video: Displayed by permission of The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Behold the multitude of Amazonian arthropods including spiders, scorpions, beetles, and mantids
Among the arthropods of the Amazon Rainforest are spiders (including orb weavers...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Know how some spiders gallop through the water
Learn how some spiders “gallop” across the surface of water.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Witness a spider building, devouring, and rebuilding a web
Time-lapse video of a spider building a web, devouring it, and building a new one.
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen String Quartet/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Study how spiders' prodigious predation of herbivorous insects protects plant life
Learn about the role spiders play as predators in the food chain.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Study the complex structures of webs created by a Nephila senegalensis and garden spider
Learn about the web-spinning behaviour of the spiders Nephila senegalensis...
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Images
red widow spider
A red widow spider (Latrodectus bishopi) is found in sandy areas of Florida.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
brown recluse spider
Brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) showing the characteristic violin-shaped...
John H. Gerard/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus)
Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti)
Redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
brown widow spider
Brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
golden garden spider
Golden garden spider (Argiope aurantia), an orb weaver.
John H. Gerard/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
crab spider
Crab spider (Misumenoides aleatorius) awaiting prey in the flower of a thistle.
John H. Gerard
trap-door spider
Trap-door spider (Bothriocyrtum californicum) standing at the entrance to...
Ruth Cordner—Root Resources/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Wolf spider showing eye arrangement, chelicerae, and fang at end of each chelicera
Anthony Bannister/The Natural History Photographic Agency
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