In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the sex ...

Sea spiders don't do anything by the book, and researchers have just gotten to the bottom of how they breathe.

Spiders have always lived alongside humans ... In fact, they are different from those found in insects and other arthropods. The wall-pore sensilla are located on the upper part of the male's ...

It is well documented that many different types of arthropods such as centipedes, spiders, and other insects can regrow limbs after a loss. Coral bleaching due to climate change is causing ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

The spider feeds on insects, small arthropods and even other predators like centipedes and scorpions, but it generally has no interest in humans. Found mostly in the Southern Hemisphere ...

Brazilian wandering spiders roam forest floors at night in search of prey such as frogs and cockroaches ... He has an MSc in zoology and entomology, specialising in animal behaviour, and aims to ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found ... but it just goes to show that for most of arthropods, we know so little,” study lead author Stephanie Loria, formerly a ...