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4 Truths About Cleaning Away Spider Webs at Home, According to an Arachnologist
Spiders that make cob, funnel, or sheet webs need to live inside to survive - but those that make orb webs (the complex geometric kind) aren't actually house spiders - they probably just got in ...
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The 7 Types of Spider Webs and the Incredible Spiders That Make Them
The insect gets its legs entangled in it and the spider races out to capture it. The more complex the surface, the more ...
New Scientist5d
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 ...
Earth.com13d
Spiders adapt their webs to filter out human-made noise
The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.
Smithsonian Magazine13d
Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
Researchers compared spiders from rural and urban environments and found they change how they build their webs when exposed to noisy conditions—but a spider’s coping strategy varied based on ...
Business Insider5y
An old NASA study gave spiders drugs to see how it affected their webs
Researchers exposed spiders to a range of different chemicals — including caffeine, marijuana, and Benzedrine — and noted how differently they spin webs under the influence of each.