While you might assume spiders are invading your home during autumn, many are simply out searching for mates. Fall is known as spider mating season, increasing the boom in indoor sightings. However, ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

You might have seen the movie "Snakes On A Plane," but if you're not careful, you could be looking at spiders in your car. From September to October, spiders enter their mating season. These insects ...

A hairy spider native to Kansas once was the namesake of a professional, minor league hockey team, the "Topeka Tarantulas." That team, based in the Sunflower State's capital city, folded in 2005, a ...

It's almost tarantula mating season. That means residents of the arid Southwest and West could be seeing the large furry spiders making their way across the desert in search for a mate. Across the ...

This video shows mate-binding behaviour of the male orb-web "Nephila pilipes" spider. To reduce female resistance to mating and the chance of being eaten by the female, the much smaller male spider ...