An orb-weaving spider species was specially chosen as the subject of a new study because the females emit sex hormones to ...

Without these, how do spiders detect odors at all? Our study has solved these long-standing questions. We discovered previously overlooked wall-pore sensilla on the walking legs of male wasp ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. There are over 45,000 species of spiders in existence, but here are three that are guaranteed to ..

Not only is it larger and hairier than other spiders in its genus, it is the only kind with long, fluffy, "feather-duster" legs. T. grande was first discovered in 2008 in Viñales National Park ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the sex ...