All Articles Tagged As: spiders

In spiders, size matters: Small males are more often meals (9/15/2008)

Males are more likely to be eaten if they are much smaller than females, which likely affects how easy they are to catch. ...> Full Article

Artificial Meadows And Robot Spiders Reveal Secret Life Of Bees (9/8/2008)

Ecologists have discovered that bumblebees can learn to outwit color-changing crab spiders. ...> Full Article

Researchers Show Fear of Predators Impacts the Health of Prey Populations (9/5/2008)

Predators can impact its prey without actually killing or consuming it ...> Full Article

Spiders Who Eat Together, Stay Together (8/6/2008)

The ability to work together and capture larger prey has allowed social spiders to stretch the laws of nature and reach enormous colony sizes ...> Full Article

Life in a bubble (8/4/2008)

Research shows how insects use trapped oxygen to breathe underwater ...> Full Article

Potent, Powerful Venom Cause for Concern (6/14/2008)

Toxicologist Offers Summer Bite & Sting Advice ...> Full Article

Female jumping spiders find ultraviolet B rays 'sexy' (5/3/2008)

Research provides the first evidence of an animal using ultraviolet B rays to communicate with other members of its species ...> Full Article

Tracing a spidery family tree (9/26/2007)

Insect biologists research has taken her from Scotland to Hawaii to Berkeley. ...> Full Article