Thomas Marent / Banana Spider (Nephila clavipes) female and smaller male, Bocas del Toro, Panama

Kim Taylor / Jumping spider (Marpissa muscosa) leaping from bramble berry. Triple exposure showing 3 stages of jump. UK

Mark Moffett / Jumping Spider (Phidippus apacheanus) jumping between twigs showing silk safety line, Arizona

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb-weaver (Micrathena sp.) weaving a silk nest to protect its eggs, the nest is suspended from a thread to isolate it from predators, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador. Filmed at...

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb-weaver (Micrathena sp.) weaving a silk nest to protect its eggs, the nest is suspended from a thread to isolate it from predators, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador. Filmed at...

Jeff Foott / Banana Spider (Nephila clavipes), Alexander Springs Recreation Area, Florida

Duncan Murrell / Lichen huntsman spider (Pandercetes gracilis) female with a silk sac of spiderlings attached to a tree trunk in the Danum Valley Conservation Area lowland dipterocarp rainforest, Sabah, Malaysian Born...

Nick Upton / Female House spider (Tegenaria sp.) at the mouth of her tubular silk retreat in an old stone wall, Wiltshire, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Green-fanged tube web spider (Segestria florentina) female at the entrance to its silk lined retreat in an old wall, near Wells, Somerset, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Green-fanged tube web spider (Segestria florentina) female at the entrance to its silk lined retreat in an old wall, near Wells, Somerset, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Longbodied cellar spider / Daddly longlegs spider (Pholcus phalangioides) hanging on its web in an outhouse and feeding on a House spider (Tegenaria sp.) it has killed and wrapped in silk, Somerset, U...

Nick Upton / Common lace weaver / Lace-webbed spider (Amaurobius similis) near the mouth of its silk-lined crevice in an old stone wall, Somerset, UK, September.