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Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't been seen before
Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...
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The 7 Types of Spider Webs and the Incredible Spiders That Make Them
Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the ...
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Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...
Ballooning, the reason you’ve seen more spider webs floating around
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The thick strands of web visible in the sky are from spiders. There have been more of them recently ...
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An old NASA study gave spiders drugs to see how it affected their webs
A NASA article from 1995 shows just how toxic caffeine is to the brain. Researchers exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals — including caffeine, marijuana, and Benzedrine — and ...
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Missing sector orb web spider
A small spider with pale body and legs and silver-grey markings on the abdomen. It is usually found around the outside of houses and gardens, and is particularly common around windows. Because of ...
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What are spider webs made of? And how do they spin them?
Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...
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What makes spider silk so special, and how science can learn from it
An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: A spider's web is more than just a spider's house. This homemade, glistening material has some spidey strength of ...