Discover the truth — and a few debunked myths — about the octo-legged, cobweb-spinning, lurking arachnid: The spider.

Bo Wang The tiny arachnid resembles a spider in having fangs and silk-producing spinnerets at its rear Four specimens of the tiny spider have been found. The scientists think it lived on or around ...

These emulsions combine two immiscible liquids where one is lured with a mechanical shear as a droplet within the other, ...

They also feature prominent spinnerets at the rear, all unmistakable signs that the spider you are looking at is likely a Sydney funnel-web. It’s not always what a spider does, but how it looks ...

Their mothering behavior is just as different, with nursery webs carrying egg sacs in their jaws compared to spinnerets for ...

To make a synthetic fiber, a liquid chemical composition is forced through spinnerets, hardened, and produced into a continuous strand of any length. Fibers come in many shapes depending on the ...

Gil discovered this spider under loose bark. Any disturbance might have caused the spider to abandon its project, so he took great care. ‘The action of the spinnerets reminded me of the movement of ...

Gil Wizen is an entomologist and an expert photographer. This fishing spider is stretching out silk from its spinnerets to weave into its egg sac. Such spiders are common in wetlands and temperate ...

The Sullivans have more band members planned for the Spinnerets in the future, but are very tight-lipped about who or what they could be. “We already have plans,” Nadia Sullivan said.

Spiders typically spin webs by producing silk from their silk glands with the help of their spinnerets, which are special organs that allow them to decide what type of thread they need at various ...

For the joints, legs, eyes, spinnerets and front pincers, use 8 celery sticks (legs and hip joints), 8 thin asparagus spears, 3 or 4 inches with ends removed (legs), 1 red bell pepper (abdomen ...

This is the spider you will often see dragging its pea-sized egg sac around by its spinnerets. They seem to love my garden beds, and I’m glad they are there to help control pests. An even more ...