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...

Konrad Wothe / Marbled orb weaver spider (Araneus marmoreus) spinning web, Bavaria, Germany, 2016

Theo Bosboom / Long jawed orb weaver spider (Tetragnatha extensa) catching Emerald damselfly (Lestes sponsa) as it emerges from its nymph exoskeleton, Hondenven, Tubbergen, the Netherlands, July.

Brian Bevan / Wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi) weaving egg sac, Bedfordshire, England, UK, Agust.

Paul Bertner / Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha falcicornis), Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania

Paul Bertner / Garden Orb Weaver (Argiope sp) in web, Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania

Ingo Arndt / Long-jawed orb weaver spider (Tetragnatha nigrita) on web, Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Four spot orbweaver spider hanging from thread {Araneus quadratus} Germany

Pal Hermansen / Garden cross spider (Araneus diadematus) on web, Norway.

Claudio Contreras / Humpback orb-weaver Spider (Eustala sp.) on dew covered web, Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Laurent Geslin / Garden spider {Araneus diadematus} at night outside house, London, UK

Juergen Freund / White spider (Araneidae) on web with zig-zag stabilmentum, Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia