The Fascinating World of Spiders | BBC Earth

While the Darwin’s bark spider can construct an orb web spanning up to 25 metres using silk that ranks among the toughest natural fibres in the world, Portia, a genus of jumping spiders, is capable of leaping up to 50 times its own body length.

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