It then races out at great speed and grabs its meal. The sheet weavers or money spiders create webs low down on grassy fields that become visible when dew forms on them. They are common in North ...

Sticky silk is a more recent evolutionary innovation. Sheet-building and net-casting spiders make their webs from cribellate ...

Dew revealed a multitude of sheet webs on this holly bush Sheet webs are usually built by the Linyphiidae. This is the largest family of spiders in the UK, with 280 species. It includes the tiny money ...

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...

British spider webs can be grouped into seven broad types based on their architecture: orb, sheet, tangle, funnel, lace, radial and purse. But even within each group, different species put their own ...

Sticky silk is a more recent evolutionary innovation. Sheet-building and net-casting spiders make their webs from cribellate silk. It is produced by many silk glands located under a flattened ...