Hone your backyard spidey sense with spider facts! Learn how to attract garden spiders and why spiders are beneficial.

Discover how orb-weaver spiders spin circular, silk webs that populate gardens and yards with grace and precision.

A male long-jawed orb weaver spider uses his huge jaws to avoid getting eaten while mating. In order to mate, a male long-jawed orb weaver spider has to hook his huge jaws into those of a larger ...

Brown widow spiders protect their egg sacs by capturing and killing parasitic wasps and constructing silk spikes. The tactics ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. In order to mate, a male long-jawed orb weaver spider has to hook his huge jaws into those of a larger ...

In order to mate, a male long-jawed orb weaver spider has to hook his huge jaws into those of a larger female. If he doesn’t get it right, he could become her next meal.

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