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You have probably admired more than once the almost perfect beauty of spider webs. Do you know why they have a circular structure? There are several reasons for this. Today, scientists recognize about ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

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The Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare that is set off by ants of one species only. The power is in the ...

Take the dewdrop spiders, a group of tiny tropical species that specialise in pilfering prey caught by larger orb-web spiders ...