Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...

Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to an increase in environmental noise. By now, residents have grown ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.