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 ...

The study found the invasive orb-weaving spider is surprisingly tolerant of the vibrations and noise common in urban ...

The study, published in the journal Arthropoda, tracked their behavior in northeast Georgia; the authors argue that part of the spiders’ success in the United States may turn on their ability to ...

Japanese spider crabs are the largest, spanning up to 12.5 feet from the tip of one front claw to the other. They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone ...

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 sun spider is known for its great speed and powerful jaw. Oddly enough, sun spiders, which are also called wind scorpions or camel spiders, are neither spiders nor scorpions. They belong to the ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

like. The authors believe that the spines on each of the spider’s eight legs evolved as a defense against predators. They point to spininess in other arthropods of the late Carboniferous era ...