With Halloween a few weeks away, wildlife experts throughout the country want the public to know there's a decoration that could pose hazards for birds, bugs and other animals when it's set up outside ...

Halloween is just around the corner, and the Watchdog knows some readers are excited to start putting up their favorite spooky decorations to celebrate the season. But readers beware: Not all seasonal ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...

Fake spider webs might delight trick-or-treaters on Halloween, but those decorations — and other trappings of the holiday — can be a real threat to animals, experts warn. “Every year, wildlife and ...

Those synthetic, packaged spider webs that are so often pulled across bushes and trees as decor for Halloween are certainly spooky—but they’re also a hazard for birds and other wildlife. The stretchy ...

Spiders such as this Argiope bruennichi sometimes adorn webs with zigzagging stabilimenta. Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only ...

Whether tucked into the corners of a haunted house or shining with drops of morning dew between tree branches, spider webs are homes to the eight-legged critters. Like some species in the animal ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature “extra touches” known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...