On July 1, Rogue was cleaning out a cluttered garden shed when she unknowingly wandered into a web housing several brown recluse spiders. “I was just in there sweeping, I immediately felt ...

It could be that the spider’s venom alters the firefly’s bioluminescence somehow, or that when the spider wraps up its victim, it bites into and damages the lanterns. Dr. Rao thinks venom is ...

The right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip. Reproduced with permission of The Company of Biologists. Han, S. I. and Blackledge, T. A. (2024).

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.