As we leave July and enter August, we reach the time of midsummer. According to the calendar, the middle date between summer solstice and autumnal equinox is August 6. This is when we notice more ...

Nursery web spiders, in the family Pisauridae, are larger than most of the local spiders seen now. They are usually light brown with wide stripes on their back. Some may be dark.

You don't want to see a wolf spider in your house, but are you sure that's what it is? Here are 10 of the wolf spiders' ...

Little did we know in June that a veritable summer colony of nursery web spider families was setting up in the garden, writes Dana Wilde. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers. Sign In: Login.

Look, if any of these male nursery web spiders out there want to get busy and perpetuate their lineage, they better not show up empty-handed. Because they could get eaten. Alive. "Nuptial gift ...

Among nursery web spiders, sexual cannibalism, as it’s called, happens only about 2 to 4 percent of the time and almost always before copulation, ...

Male nursery web spiders persuade females to mate by wrapping food in their own silk, which is laced with attractive chemicals. This gift-giving is a common part of courtship among nursery web ...

Because the nursery web takes a similar form as the spider’s safety web, which it only builds when it molts, the researchers hypothesize that the wasp injects some kind of chemical compound that ...

The nursery web spider, Pisaura mirabilis, is a common European spider species, and typically lives in grass meadow. During their second year, male spiders search and compete for mates and present ...

The risk of sexual cannibalism for the nursery web spiders that didn’t give gifts declined when mating occurred while the female was feeding, according to the study.

Florida is home to some of the most fascinating creatures found in North America, from manatees to roseate spoonbills. Still, some of its most incredible creatures are often the ones hidden right ...