Dominating this picture, a giant orb-weaving spider, (Mongolarachne jurassica) having spun a web amongst the Ginko baiera twigs, has just caught a giant cicada (Palaeontinodes reshuitangensis).

How to prevent them: Block access to you home as you would with American house spiders ... out of a classic horror movie, the orb weaver spider's web is a circular creation resembling the spoke ...

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 ...

It acts like Velcro, sticking to the legs and bristles of captured insects.' A member of the Araneidae family, the garden orb-weaver or garden cross spider (Araneus diadematus) is probably the ...

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 ...

Little did they know they were in for what Shamble says was “a huge surprise”: the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the ...