It’s early fall and we sometimes enjoy seeing fuzzy orange and black caterpillars trekking over the trails on their way to better foraging or a site for pupation. Although we usually call them “woolly ...

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The iconic spider web — think Charlotte's Web —is the spiral orb web. These circular webs are largely vertical and covered in sticky silk, designed to trap and entangle flying insects. Orb-weaver ...

Every spider can spin silk; it’s one of the defining characteristics of the order Araneae, alongside venomous fangs, two-part bodies, and 8 legs. Silk has many purposes: it is used in creating ...