Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...
A study shows that spider web decorations help spiders locate prey by spreading vibrations across more silk threads.
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What Are Those Zigzags You See In Spiders’ Webs? Study Finds They Could Be A Kind Of Alarm System
Ever walked past a spider’s web and noticed it’s got zigzags woven through it? Congratulations! You have observed stabilimenta, a kind of “extra touch” that spiders weave into their webs that's made ...
The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited ...
Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.
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Spiders weave secret alarm system through web zigzags for prey detection, study finds
F or decades, arachnologists debated the actual purpose of stabilimenta, a special thread spiders weave into their webs. Now, ...
The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which ...
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile ...
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