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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Their body is oval and minute, and they have 8 legs but no antennae. Spiders are predatory arthropods of insects. Unlike the horror movies, spiders do not attack humans unless provoked to bite by ...