Smithsonian Magazine10d
Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...
Christian Science Monitor18d
World Wide Web of Spiders
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
Everyone in the City Needs Soundproofing, Even Spiders
Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...
Hosted on MSN7mon
Photos: See the most common spiders that are found in Louisiana
They tend to prefer to live in indoor and outer areas. The brown widow spiders prefer to build their webs in protected and sheltered areas. UC Riverside’s Center for Invasive Species Research ...
Daily Mail10y
Spider webs are nature's GUITARS: Silk 'music' created when insects pluck the threads reveals information about their prey
‘Most spiders have poor eyesight and rely almost exclusively on the vibration of the silk in their web for sensory information,’ said Beth Mortimer of the Oxford Silk Group who led the ...