Ecologists have found the cause of the disappearance of black widow spiders from the south of the United States
(ORDO NEWS) -- Ecologists have found that the decline in the numbers of two species…
Spiders may evolve towards a social lifestyle
(ORDO NEWS) -- Some spider species have evolved from a solitary lifestyle to a more…
Engineers turn dead spiders into robotic arms
(ORDO NEWS) -- With the help of pneumatics, the legs of dead spiders can move,…
Biologists have found that some tropical spiders can hide under water for up to 30 minutes
(ORDO NEWS) -- American and Portuguese scientists have described a long immersion in water -…
Spiders can cover themselves with an airy film for diving under water
(ORDO NEWS) -- Earlier it became known that anole lizards are able to breathe underwater…
To avoid death, male orbweb spiders catapult after mating
(ORDO NEWS) -- For male orbitrek spiders, love bites. If they do not run away…
Microalgae have preserved the remains of spiders over 20 million years old
(ORDO NEWS) -- The remains of spiders of the Oligocene period have been preserved to…
Male spiders have learned to catapult to avoid being eaten by females
(ORDO NEWS) -- In P. prominens spiders, after mating, only those males survive that catapult…
Arachnologists claim there are 50,000 known species of spiders in the world
(ORDO NEWS) -- There are currently 50,000 different species of spiders known to crawl the…
Spiders don’t have ears, but they can enhance their “hearing” with giant webs
(ORDO NEWS) -- The web is essential for grabbing food, but it can also be…
How spiders fly using electric fields
(ORDO NEWS) -- Never given wings by nature, many species of spiders have instead developed…
Palm-sized invasive spiders spread along the East Coast in the US
(ORDO NEWS) -- Americans suffering from arachnophobia and living on the East Coast are extremely…