New Jersey-based artist Emil ‘Rocky’ Fiore managed to capture the fragile beauty of spiderwebs by mounting them behind glass. Fiore lightly sprays the webs in aluminum silver paint to imitate the texture of dew.

Of his work, Fiore states: ‘My concept is simply to catch the web. to preserve its beauty. and unlike photographs, my method isolates the web and displays the structure and design free of any distracting background. of course each and every one is a real spiders web and they are as varied as snowflakes or fingerprints, yet they are highly stylized and recognizable by species to a trained eye’.

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Spiders can make art, too. In fact, some might call them self-portraits. Peruvian Amazon-dwelling spider, believed to be from the genisus Cyclosa, builds elaborate spider decoys from leaves, debris, and dead insects. More to come on this spider once a permit is released to take samples.

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Preserved in amber for around 100 million years, a spider has been found attacking a wasp. Just as the spider was about to chow down on what would be its final meal, tree resin dropped onto the pair setting them solid. The age of the fossil means that dinosaurs would almost definitely have been wandering past as the setting took place. The fossil was found in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar and offers a pretty vivid insight into the past. Keep this in mind the next time you’re snacking near sappy trees.

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