Cobweb-weaving spiders produce different attachment discs for locomotion and prey capture
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Cobweb-weaving spiders produce different attachment discs for locomotion and prey capture.
Spiders' cobwebs ensnare both walking and flying prey. While the scaffolding silk can entangle flying insects, gumfoot silk threads pull walking prey off the ground and into the web. Therefore, scaffolding silk needs to withstand the impact of the prey, whereas gumfoot silk needs to easily detach from the substrate when contacted by prey. Here we show that spiders accomplish these divergent dem...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2099