When it comes to scary-looking spiders, you don't have to be an arachnophobe to find steering clear of the golden silk orb weaver (Trichonephila clavipes) to be a good idea. Sometimes called ...

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 ...

A male orb-weaver spider prepares to catapult away from a ... Previously we’ve seen spiders bigger than ever, some even big enough to eat an opossum. Josh Hawkins has been writing for over ...

Companies spend thousands developing a project for the market, hoping their investment will return big ... for the strongest spider silk among which the golden silk orb-weaver gets the most ...

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 ...