Also known as the yellow garden spider or writing spider ... purpose besides snagging insect prey—it often holds a large egg sac up to an inch in diameter with as many as a thousand eggs ...

We asked pest pros to share the best way to get rid of a spider nest fast, so you don't need to deal with an infestation.

Let's talk about spider eggs, those tiny wonders of nature that hold the next generation of arachnids. Spider egg sacs, made of silk, are carefully crafted by mom spiders to protect their baby spiders ...

Valeria Arabesky and colleagues at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found that invasive brown widow spiders effectively defend their egg sacs against wasp parasites. The spiders use multiple ...

Mr Bay had been out for a night walk in western Singapore with some friends when one of them noticed the spider egg sac and alerted him to it. “Most people will just look at it from afar and ...

Spiders may benefit from having fewer predators in urban towns and cities, a new study by researchers from Ben-Gurion University shows. The research team compared egg sac parasitism in the urban ...