Arachnophobes can usually take comfort in the fact that spiders are solitary creatures. The vast majority of the almost 40,000 known arachnid species have pretty miserable social skills, so they tend ...

Scientists have discovered a terrifying species of spiders that hunt in packs. Most adult spiders prefer to live their lives alone, like the Joro spiders spreading across the southeastern U.S. However ...

Social spider colony (Anelosimus eximius) in French Guiana (Raphaël Jeanson/CNRS) A spider species that lives in French Guiana is able to hunt in packs of hundreds, moving “in unison” and coordinating ...

Spiders that hunt in packs use web vibrations to coordinate their attacks, allowing them to kill prey hundreds of times larger than they could on their own. Of the 50,000 known spider species, just ...

A species of "social" spider hunts in packs among webs woven by thousands of creatures, scientists have found. Scientists with the University of Toulouse and the French National Center for Scientific ...

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Within the 50,000 known species of spiders about 20 have developed a permanent social life characterised by a remarkable cooperation 1. Among these, one or two species hunt "in packs", such as the ...