A small spider with pale body and legs and silver-grey markings on the abdomen. It is usually found around the outside of houses and gardens, and is particularly common around windows. Because of ...

True to its name, the garden orb-weaver is very common in gardens throughout the UK, but it occurs ... two centimetres long. The spider is black or dark brown. The base of its jaws (chelicerae) are ...

The vibrant swirl, which has now been debunked, was photographed in the UK and was also seen in parts of Europe ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Oxford Silk Group, part of Oxford University in the UK, filmed a spider silk harvesting session. Golden Orb Weaver spiders produce up to 80 meters of ...

If you are a male orb weaver spider, life is difficult ... 35s across Britain The King’s Foundation has launched its ‘35 under 35’ initiative — a UK-wide search for ‘the next generation of exceptional ...

A strange glowing orb baffled residents across parts of the UK as it spiraled through the night sky. Witnesses took to social media to share their astonishment, with sightings seemingly linked to ...

The UK is home to more than 650 different species of spiders, and although extremely rare in this part of the world, their bites could lead to dangerous outcomes. The number could be higher, with ...

Little did they know they were in for what Shamble says was “a huge surprise”: the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the ...