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A driver in the USA has apologised after he caused a large blaze by using his lighter while filling up at a petrol station.

He then did something that most people understand is obviously not smart. The man filling his vehicle up didn’t like the spider crawling around near his fill cap. But after being questioned by investigators, he admitted that he saw a spider and tried to set it on fire with...

The study looked at the Reclinervellus nielseni wasp and the way it used and abused the Cyclosa argenteoalba spider – taking control of its mind and body to essentially make it build the nursery and become the pantry for the infant wasp.

In a study featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Kobe University researcher Keizo Takasuka and his colleagues gathered specimens of a species of spider known as Cyclosa argenteoalba. The spiders worked on this web for approximately 10 hours, and it was finished just in...

This Tetragnathid spider is also using its legs as sails. Once attached to an object, the report reads, the spiders walk along the silk until they reach safety.

Spiders raise their legs to catch wind when traveling across water. They can control their speed using their silk as anchor to slow themselves down or stop moving across the water. The spiders were placed on water trays and the scientists observed the spiders’ behavior when...