A family of spiders can catch prey many times their own weight by hitching silk lines to their quarry and hoisting the meaty prize up into the air. Tangle web spiders, in the Theridiidae family, are ...

Floating on a thread: Some spiders can fly by exploiting the electrostatic interaction between the Earth’s electric field and the charge on their silk threads. (Courtesy: iStock/KuntalSaha) ...

Some spiders take on prey that is far larger than they are, including lizards. To stop such prey from running away, they use their webs as pulleys to lift the doomed animals off the ground. Gabriele ...