When a male golden orb-weaver spider Nephila pilipes wants to get busy, he pulls out a special trick: He gives his mate a "back rub," new research shows.. For many spiders, females of the species ...

Nephila pilipes were used in these experiments as they are active both diurnally and nocturnally, making them excellent species to study visual prey lures. Flies and bees make up the majority of ...

Nephila pilipes were used in these experiments as they are active both diurnally and nocturnally, making them excellent species to study visual prey lures.

Dead vespertilionid bat entangled in the web of a female Nephila pilipes in the Aberdeen Country Park, Hong Kong. Feeding time (Image credit: Photo by Rick West, British Columbia, Canada) ...

Yellow patterns on the undersides of many orb weaver spiders, like this Nephila pilipes, attract flying insects, researchers say.. Travelina/iStock/Getty Images Plus ...

SILK STRAND Silk harvested from the golden orb weaver spider Nephila pilipes is shown in a scanning electron microscope image. D. Liu et al/Applied Physics Letters 2017.

Nephila pilipes spider on a web. Credit: Liu et al., Sci. Adv. 2019; 5 : eaau9183. Spider dragline silk exhibits a unique self-powered actuation, controlled simply by tuning relative humidity, ...

Nephila pilipes spider in Lab. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 1st, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Liu at Huazhong University of ...

Researchers in the UK and China found that spiders have special 'dragline' silk that can resist twisting forces, and further research could lead to fibers that mimic its properties.

The sensor is made from silk from the giant wood spider Nephila pilipes, which was enveloped in a biocompatible photocurable resin and then functionalized with a biocompatible nano-layer of gold.

This is a golden orb-weaver, Nephila pilipes. (Photo courtesy of Bing Heng Lee) (CN) – Using a bright yellow color similarly found in several flower heads, scientists revealed in a new study Monday ...