In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up glowing spider web or cobweb with dew hanging on the grass in the early morning. Golden sunrise shines on spider web and ...

Sometimes fireflies shouldn’t follow the light. A single flash from a female usually helps male Abscondita terminalis fireflies find her among tall grasses at dusk. Males are showier, giving off ...

Healthy spiders never run out of silk. Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the spider that built them. Watching flies ...