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tag orb web spider evolution
Slingshot Spiders Pull More Gs than Cheetahs Do
Ashley Yeager
| Nov 1, 2020
| 4 min read
Using their silk threads as a catapult, members of a family of orb-weaving arachnids rocket themselves and their webs through the air to capture prey.
Insect Cuticle Aids Spidersā Traps
Sandhya Sekar
| Jun 2, 2017
| 4 min read
Prey stick to orb-weaver spider webs because their waxy outer layers mesh with spider silk to form a matrix glue.
Spider Uses Its Web Like a Giant Engineered Ear
Dan Robitzski
| Oct 29, 2021
| 4 min read
Bridge spiders “outsource” their hearing by building webs that double as acoustic arrays, allowing them to perceive sounds from great distances.
Behavior Brief
Amanda B. Keener
| Sep 2, 2015
| 5 min read
A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research
Preserving Research
Amy Maxmen
| Aug 1, 2013
| 8 min read
The top online archives for storing your unpublished findings
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