The male orb-weaving spider kills himself before the female has a chance to.

We take a single gene from a golden orb-weaving spider and put it into a goat egg.

Not surprisingly, then, the primitive orb-weaving spiders count a mere 300 species or so in their group.

It is also known as longtailed orb-weaving spider or tear drop spider.

One remarkable twist on this strategy is seen in a species of orb-weaving spiders.

Araneus angulatus is a species of orb-weaving spider found in the Palaearctic.

Poltys is also a genus of orb-weaving spider.

Kaira is a mostly neotropical genus of orb-weaving spider with 16 described species.

Melychiopharis is a genus of orb-weaving spiders in the family Araneidae.

M. segmentata is probably the most abundant orb-weaving spider of Germany.