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Spiders use pre-tensioned silk to hoist prey off the ground – Phys.org
A pair of researchers at the University of Trento has found that some spiders use pre-tensioned silk to hoist prey off the ground. In their paper published in Journal…

A pair of researchers at the University of Trento has found that some spiders use pre-tensioned silk to hoist prey off the ground. In their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Gabriele Greco and Nicola Pugno describe experiments with two species of spiders, Steatoda paykulliana and Steatodatriangulosa.
Prior research has shown that many kinds of spiders are capable of capturing prey that is much bigger than they arein some cases, 50 times as massive. But how they do so has…
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