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...

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

James Dunbar / Male Orb-weaving spider (Araneus) courting a female near a dead fly, Bristol, England, UK, September.

Alex Hyde / Sheetweb weaving spider (Linyphiidae) in web at sunset. The silk is refracting the light into a rainbow of coloured bands. Slovenia, July.

Denis-Huot / Village weaver bird (Ploceus cucullatus) male building a nest after the rains, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. February.

Graeme Guy / Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus) male weaving nest, Singapore

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian feather crown being made from basket weave, feathers will be attached later with beeswax. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007, Model released

Edwin Giesbers / Orb Weave spider (Argiope sp.) weaving web, Sarawak Borneo, Malaysia, June

Inaki Relanzon / Padaung women (Giraffe Neck women) wearing neck rings, weaving, Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar, Burma. August 2009

Piotr Naskrecki / Ogre-faced Spider (Deinopis sp) do not wait passively for an insect to fall into their web, instead, they cast sticky nets, La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Woman and girl weaving wad palm {Copernicia cerifera} Aracati, Ceara, NE Brazil

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group grab an adjacent leaf and stem with mandibles and toes and pull, gradually binding them together to make a nest, Malaysia