Daddy longlegs are a common pest in many homes and outdoor environments, sometimes referred to as a cellar spider, despite not being a spider ... small form and long legs, while the name ...

Interestingly, it is not unusual to see another spider taking over a vacant funnel web – albeit with a little refurbishment where needed. The daddy long legs spiders (Pholcus phalangioides ...

It then rushes out and secures the meal. Interestingly, it is not unusual to see another spider taking over a vacant funnel web – albeit with a little refurbishment where needed. The daddy long legs ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it’s surprising how much we still don’t know about them. One long-standing mystery was related to how spiders detect smells. Now, our latest ...

It was named ‘Pioneer’ but popularly known as ‘daddy long-legs’. Power was provided by an electricity cable mounted on tall poles along the shoreline, connected by trolley poles to motors ...

Our study has solved these long-standing questions. We discovered previously overlooked wall-pore sensilla on the walking legs of male wasp spiders (Argiope bruennichi) and demonstrated that they can ...

You dislodge a rotting log in your yard and immediately recoil at the sight of a spider. The creature is black, shiny, and has eight thick, armoured legs. It is not ...

Have you ever found a spider crouching in a corner of your house and wondered how many more were lurking nearby? It’s not a pleasant thought ... of up to 5.1 inches and a leg span of up to 11 inches, ...

When threatened by a predator, spiders can detach their legs in a process called autotomy – up to 40 per cent of wild spiders have missing legs as a result. Their legs fully grow back when they ...

aurea found in Brazil) possibly manipulating spiders to move to the underside of leaves before death, as described in a November 2022 study coauthored by Araújo. However, the maneuver was not as ...