| A diabolical trap | Text about silk and webs. The Hindu (India) | 10/9/04 |
| A orb-weaver spinning her web | Picture. Chad Arment (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| A spider's silk spigots | Scanning Electron Microscope Image of the spigots of a spider. Biological Electron Microscope Facility, Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| A Teia da Aranha | Information about spider webs and a picture showing how an orb web is made (in Portugese) (Brazil) | 10/9/04 |
| Along came a spider | Why tinker with nature when you can copy it? About spider silk. Janine M. Benyus. Sierra Club (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Ancient Arachnids May Have Spun Silk | by Cary R. Easterday (USA) | 6/5/05 |
| Anita and Arabella's Legacy to Tennis - Tennis on the Web, A Spider's Web That I | Anita and Arabella were a pair of spiders that flew on NASA's Skylab, the first U.S. space station. Tennis Sport Science (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Arabella and Anita | About the experiments in Skylab 3. NASA (USA) | 10/10/04 |
| Arachnids and Silk Production | Short text. Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology. (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Artificial spider silk | Scientists vie to synthesize the precious strands of the golden orb weaver. Richard Lipkin. ScienceNewsOnline (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Australian spiders set to train with astronauts for space shuttle mission | RMIT University (Australia) | 10/9/04 |
| Bacteria Developed to Produce Spider Silk | Z-teach (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Bioengineered Spider Silk | Sean Henahan, Access Excellence (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Bioengineered Spider Silk | Some info. Sean Henahan, Access Excellence (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Biomaterials Home Page | With a section about spider silk. Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia (Canada) | 10/9/04 |
| Biomolecular self-assembling materials | With a diagram of the proposed model for the molecular arrangement of alanine residues in a fiber of spider dragline silk. Scientific and Technological Frontiers. National Academy of Science (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Busy spiders on a misty morning | With a picture of an orb web. R. L. Brooks. Art of physics competition. Canadian Association of Physicists (Canada) | 10/9/04 |
| Caught in the web | Information and pictures of silk. David Tenenbaum. University of Wisconsin (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Charlotte's Goat | Nigerian dwarf goats produce spider silk. Christopher Helman, Forbes Global (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Common U.S. spiders that build webs containing stabilimenta | Todd A. Blackledge (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| De la vista nace el amor | Information and pictures. Anita Hoffmann. Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa (in Spanish) (Mexico) | 10/9/04 |
| Die Spinn-Kunst der Spinne | Information and pictures. Angela Bode (in German) (Germany) | 10/9/04 |
| El arte de cazar | Information and pictures. Anita Hoffmann. Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa (in Spanish) (Mexico) | 10/9/04 |
| Fiber Engineers, Meet Thy Master | The orb-weaving spider produces one of the world's toughest fibers. Using recombinant DNA technology, DuPont scientists have created spider silk as a model for a new generation of materials. FloridaNature.org (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Floating White Ropy Strands Cause Stir- Probably from Woolly Aphids but There Ar | About ballooning etc. Laura Skillman &Lee Townsend. Univ. of Kentucky (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Gene cloned for stretchiest spider silk | M. Jensen. ScienceNewsOnline (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Genetically Engineered Plants May Offer New Source for Spider Silk | Short text. Eva Wong. Cornelliana, Cornell University (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Glycoproteins and Skin-Core Structure in Nephila clavipes Spider Silk Observed b | Summary from Scanning. K. Augsten, P. Mühlig, C. Herrmann. Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMB), Department of Molecular Cytology-Electronmicroscopy, Jena (Germany) | 10/9/04 |
| Good Bug, Bad Bug: Garden Spiders | Some info and drawings of spiders and how they make an orb web. Don Julien. Rose Petals, The Official Website for the Seattle Rose Society (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Hawaiian spiders and webs | Todd A. Blackledge (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| How does a spider web work? | Info. Science Theatre (USA) | 10/26/03 |
| How strong are spider webs and how does the patterns affect their strength? | Virtual Science Centre (Singapore) | 10/9/04 |
| In Harmony with Neighboring Insects and Spiders | Why do spiders have come to make webs? Common Spiders in Japan. Photographs of Spiders' Webs - Networks of silk. Bolas spiders in Japan. Pictures of several spiders. Mikio Sekine (In English and Japanese) (Japan) | 10/9/04 |
| Knit yourself a bulletproof vest | The use of spider silk. ABC Online News (Australia) | 10/9/04 |
| La toile des Orbitèles | Pictures and info. La Haute École de Gestion de Genève (in French) (Switserland) | 10/26/03 |
| Los hilados más antiguos del mundo | Information and pictures. Anita Hoffmann. Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa (in Spanish) (Mexico) | 10/9/04 |
| Magnetic Spider Silk | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German) (Germany) | 10/9/04 |
| Modeling the construction of a spider web | The web of a spider can appear very complex in its design and construction. However, observation has revealed that the common garden spider, or cross spider, constructs its web by following a few relatively simple rules. Nkululeko Moyo. Kenyon College (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Molecular Spider Silk Technology | With a picture of Nephila clavipes. Dr. Klaus Weisshart et al. IMB Institute of Molecular Biotechnology e.V. Department of Molecular Cytology - Electron Microscopy (Germany) | 10/9/04 |
| New spin on spider silk | About genetically modified goats to make spider silk. R. Sundaram. The Hindu Business Line (India) | 10/9/04 |
| Nexia and US Army spin the world's first man-made spider silk performance fibers | Press release from Nexia Biotechnologies (Canada) | 10/9/04 |
| Part of a orbweb | Picture by Teun Veldman (The Netherlands) | 10/9/04 |
| Radius construction and structure in the orb-web of Zilla diodia (Araneidae) | PDF. Article. Samuel Zschokke (Switzerland) | 10/9/04 |
| Ribbon-threads in the webs of brown spiders - (Loxosceles spp.) | Eduardo Ramires, Brazil. Microscopy UK (UK) | 10/10/04 |
| Sam's Spider Web Construction Gallery | Many pictures of spider webs and images that show the tracks of spiders during web construction. Samuel Zschokke, Environmental Biology Research Group, University of Basel (Switzerland) | 10/9/04 |
| Scientists Discover New Spider Silk Gene | Two University of Wyoming scientists have discovered a gene that produces the most highly elastic fiber from a spider's silk (1998). Univ. of Wyoming (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Silk Protein Project | A large page with much info. Paul Yager Research Group. Bioengineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Silken Threads of Deceit | What is spider silk? What are the Physical Characteristics of Spider Silk? What are the Chemical Characteristics of Spider Silk? How Does This Material get Airborne? Jay Reynold (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Silks and Evolution of Arthropods | Article. Ian Huntington. Swarthmore College (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider Silk | American Institute of Physics (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider Silk | Patrick E. Collins, Eleanor Imster. Earth & Sky (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider Silk | Spider silk as fibers. Chronicle Publishing Company (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider Silk | Information and SEM pictures. Ed Nieuwenhuys (The Netherlands) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk | The National Humane Education Society (USA) | 10/26/03 |
| Spider silk | Some info about the strength. ASL Materials Group (Canada) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk | Weaving/Spinning. About.com, hobbies (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk | in Japanese | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk | a little information. Torben Lenau (Denmark) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk | Much info and pictures. Singapore Zoological Gardens (Singapore) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk from goat's milk | Pacific News Service (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk from goat's milk - hints of a new industrial revolution | A Canadian company is on the verge of manufacturing it in quantities, and by a most surprising method - in the milk of transgenic goats. Walter Truett Anderson (South Africa) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk may solve knotty surgical problem | Anita Manning of USA Today (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider silk may solve knotty surgical problem | Anita Manning of USA Today (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider Silk Protein as a Biomaterial | About the mass production of man-made spider dragline silk. From BioSteel. Nexia (Canada) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider Silk: Stress-strain curves and young's modulus | M. Beals, L. Gross, S. Harrell. The Institute for Environmental Modeling (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider Spinning System | Very interesting pages with a lot of info and pictures. Biomimetic Materials Research Group. Clemson University (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider Web | Some pictures of webs. FreeFoto.com (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider web construction | The "web" on the picture is not an image of the actual web, but a vector trace generated by plotting the coordinates recorded by DeltaVideo, as the spider built the spirals. Delta Video. Channel D Software (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider webs | A little info. Rudy Scheibner. University of Kentucky Department of Entomology (USA) | 10/26/03 |
| Spider webs | Info. Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider webs | Information and pictures. Brantacan Home Page. Art, science, nature, engineering, mathematics, and some relationships between them (UK) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider webs | Some pictures and info. Brantacan Home Page (UK) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider webs | An article. Forest Preserve District of Cook County (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider webs | A large number of pictures of spiderwebs. Wernher Krutein (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spider webs | The Australian Reptile Park (Australia) | 10/9/04 |
| Spiders | A lot of info and pictures (in Russian) (Russia) | 10/9/04 |
| Spiders | Importance of Spiders & Spider Silk. Cofrin Arboretum, Center for Biodiversity (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spiders | This report deals with testing the toxicity of certain chemicals on spiders, and determining the toxicity by how it affects it's ability to weave it's web. www.goldenessays.com (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spiders from outer space | A group of astronauts currently training for a shuttle mission all have eight legs. Beyond 2000 (Australia) | 10/10/04 |
| Spiders in Space | Information and pictures of the effect of micro-gravity on spider behaviour and web properties. Anne Helmenstine. Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Spiderweb | A very good picture of a spiderweb from a linyphid spider. Hans van Reenen (The Netherlands) | 10/9/04 |
| Spinnen | Information about spiders and silk (in Dutch) (The Netherlands) | 10/9/04 |
| Spinning Spiders | Questions and answers. Discovery Communications (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Sponner Alexander | Microscopical investigating of spider silks from Nephila clavipes and different aspects of their generation and their properties. Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie (Germany) | 10/26/03 |
| Stoned Spiders | A spot of speed puts spiders in a spin. Scientists at the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have turned their attention from the mysteries of the cosmos to a more esoteric area of research: what happens when you get a spider stoned. Wacky Paula's Page (Sweden) | 10/9/04 |
| Structural Studies of Spider Silks | David T. Grubb, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, NY (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Sunrise on a tangled web | Article. Bill Meredith. Emmitsburg.net (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| The contruction of a wheel web | How does an orb web spider make its web? Read it here. Ed Nieuwenhuys (The Netherlands) | 10/26/03 |
| The engineering genius of a spider's web | Info. David Hambling. Guardian News Service, Sohu.com (China) | 10/9/04 |
| The Orb Web: An Energetic & Behavioral Estimator of a Spider's Foraging and Repr | Animal Behaviour 48 (1): 19-34. Peter M. Sherman (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| The Spiders Web Part I | Large article about silk and webs. Bill Amos. Microscopy UK (UK) | 10/9/04 |
| The Spiders Web Part II | Large article about silk and webs. Bill Amos. Microscopy UK (UK) | 10/9/04 |
| The Stabilimentum of the Silver Argiope Spider | Ron Lyons (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Ultrastructural and Morphological Variations in the Tail, Sac, and Duct of the A | Student project. Adam Gemar. California State University (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Unraveling Silk's Secrets, One Spider Species at a Time | Short article. Kenneth Chang, New York Times (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Unraveling the Weave of Spider Silk | One of nature's wondrous chemical structures is being dissected so that it can be used in human inventions. Ricki Lewis. McGraw-Hill Higher Education (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Untangling the Web | SSCOM Researchers Work to Duplicate Spider Silk (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Walking on water | Why some spiders can walk on water. David Tenenbaum (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Web construction in Araneus diadematus | This page depicts the outline of an exemplary orb-web construction of Araneus diadematus (the European Garden spider) in the laboratory. With Quicktime movie. Samuel Zschokke, Environmental Biology Research Group, University of Basel (Switzerland) | 10/9/04 |
| Webs of intrigue - Thread of many uses: Spider silk | Pictures and info. Wild by Nature (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| What is spider's silk made of? | How Stuff Works (USA) | 10/9/04 |
| Why a Garden spider does not get stuck in its own web | Microscopy UK. Ben Prins (The Netherlands) | 10/26/03 |
| Why don't spiders stick to their own webs? | Info. DrUniverse. Washington State University (USA) | 10/26/03 |