Have you ever paused in awe at a glistening spider web stretched between branches after a morning rain? There’s something ...

Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

Some spiders build their webs across potential insect flight paths. High-traffic areas such as near a light or window that's lit up at night are prime sites. Other species place webs down low where ...

Each type of silk gland is associated with a particular spinneret. No species has all seven, but orb-web weavers have five. Spiders have structures called spinnerets on their abdomen, usually on the ...

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders responded differently ...

Dubbed the “bone collector,” this newly described caterpillar is one of the rarest known members of the insect world, ...

Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, extremely rare species: carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars, that live in ...

Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.