Nocturnal spiders have been filmed capturing fireflies and keeping them in their webs to attract more prey, even intermittently checking on them over the course of an hour, according to a new study.

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

Spider webs present an intriguing challenge to evolutionary biologists. These finely honed death traps come in many forms, from the trampoline-like construction of the sheet web spider, to the ...

Aug. 28 (UPI) --Ecologists saw nocturnal spiders attracting prey with their web by using fireflies as bait, according to a new study. Tunghai University researchers observed Psechrus Clavis a sheet ...