Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spiders such as this Argiope bruennichi sometimes adorn webs with zigzagging stabilimenta. (Pierluigi Rizzo (member of Aracnofilia ...

Spider web “decorations” may help arachnids to pinpoint the location of their captured prey, suggests a study. The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged ...

After a spider finishes weaving its web, it sometimes adds one last touch. A bright zigzag down the middle, like a silken “X.” These flourishes, known as stabilimenta, have puzzled scientists for a ...

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

This is a spider web as seen in bird vision (left), and fly vision (right). The zigzags on the spider's web send a secret message to birds that their insect prey can't see, even from less than a foot ...

The stabilimentum in Argiope bruennichi. a) The production of aciniform silk by A. bruennichi when wrapping a prey. b) A juvenile A. bruennichi in the centre of its web with the stabilimentum ...