The secret world of spider webs

A world of webs: why do spiders build webs?

Orb web: elastic spiral

Stabilimenta: web decorations

Lace web: pretty deadly

Water web: fishing lines

Net web: meal snatcher

Cobweb: tricky trip wires

Funnel web: stage for an ambush

Ladder web: a moth's worst nightmare

Golden web: colorful camouflage

Sheet web: deadly hammock - Trapdoor web: secret burrow under the sand

Tent web: preying behind the barrier

Colony web: supersized prey catcher

Lampshade web: out of the spotlight

Web builders: how does a spider build its web?

Eight long legs: what makes a spider a spider?

Spin doctors: how does a spider make its silk?

Silk lines: different types of spider silk

Spot that spider: a spider-spotter's guide.