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High performance silks deployed by web building wolf spiders

Silk is a truly amazing fiber naturally produced by moths, caddisflies, some flies, ants, bees, and grasshoppers, as well as spiders. If you have seen a spider abseil from their web, you are familiar with dragline silk, one of several types of silk a spider... click to read more

Sean J. Blamires | Professor at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Mariángeles Lacava | Professor at sean.blamires@unsw.edu.au

Luis F. García | Professor at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

co-evolution

extended phenotypes

silk properties

web building

wolf spiders

Reading time 4 min

published on Nov 12, 2018