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  1. This tiny spider builds webs across rivers with silk more than 10 times tougher than Kevlar |

    Spotting a spider web stretching from one side to the other seems impossible, yet this is exactly what…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #Biomaterials #caerostrisdarwini #darwin'sbarkspider #EvolutionaryBiology #largestorbweb #madagascarwildlife #river-spanningspiderweb #Science #spidersilk #spidersilkresearch #strongestbiologicalmaterial
    newsbeep.com/au/808010/

  2. Oh my goodness. New Travis McEnery video, over an hour long, about SPIDER SILK. youtu.be/vqsMYw7vKbk

    #spiders #SpiderSilk

  3. Oh my goodness. New Travis McEnery video, over an hour long, about SPIDER SILK. youtu.be/vqsMYw7vKbk

    #spiders #SpiderSilk

  4. Oh my goodness. New Travis McEnery video, over an hour long, about SPIDER SILK. youtu.be/vqsMYw7vKbk

    #spiders #SpiderSilk

  5. Oh my goodness. New Travis McEnery video, over an hour long, about SPIDER SILK. youtu.be/vqsMYw7vKbk

    #spiders #SpiderSilk

  6. Kraig Biocraft Labs sets world record: 1.3 metric tons of spider silk production in one month. Major step toward industrial-scale commercialization of advanced biomaterials. #SpiderSilk #Biotech

  7. Kraig Biocraft Labs sets world record: 1.3 metric tons of spider silk production in one month. Major step toward industrial-scale commercialization of advanced biomaterials. #SpiderSilk #Biotech

  8. Kraig Biocraft Labs sets world record: 1.3 metric tons of spider silk production in one month. Major step toward industrial-scale commercialization of advanced biomaterials. #SpiderSilk #Biotech

  9. Kraig Biocraft Labs sets world record: 1.3 metric tons of spider silk production in one month. Major step toward industrial-scale commercialization of advanced biomaterials. #SpiderSilk #Biotech

  10. Kraig Biocraft Labs sets world record: 1.3 metric tons of spider silk production in one month. Major step toward industrial-scale commercialization of advanced biomaterials. #SpiderSilk #Biotech

  11. #SpiderSilk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old #genetic oops
    #Spiders and silk go hand in hand, but spinnerets may exist thanks to an ancient error
    A close look at the genetics and development of #spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings suggest key, doubled genes were responsible for the #evolution of spinnerets.
    sciencenews.org/article/spider
    archive.ph/LVsPW

  12. #SpiderSilk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old #genetic oops
    #Spiders and silk go hand in hand, but spinnerets may exist thanks to an ancient error
    A close look at the genetics and development of #spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings suggest key, doubled genes were responsible for the #evolution of spinnerets.
    sciencenews.org/article/spider
    archive.ph/LVsPW

  13. -making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old oops
    and silk go hand in hand, but spinnerets may exist thanks to an ancient error
    A close look at the genetics and development of — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings suggest key, doubled genes were responsible for the of spinnerets.
    sciencenews.org/article/spider
    archive.ph/LVsPW

  14. #SpiderSilk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old #genetic oops
    #Spiders and silk go hand in hand, but spinnerets may exist thanks to an ancient error
    A close look at the genetics and development of #spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings suggest key, doubled genes were responsible for the #evolution of spinnerets.
    sciencenews.org/article/spider
    archive.ph/LVsPW

  15. #SpiderSilk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old #genetic oops
    #Spiders and silk go hand in hand, but spinnerets may exist thanks to an ancient error
    A close look at the genetics and development of #spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings suggest key, doubled genes were responsible for the #evolution of spinnerets.
    sciencenews.org/article/spider
    archive.ph/LVsPW

  16. My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks!

    Enjoy the read

    pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articl

    #science #spider #spidersilk #biology #nature #mechanics #engineering #physics

  17. My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks!

    Enjoy the read

    pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articl

    #science #spider #spidersilk #biology #nature #mechanics #engineering #physics

  18. My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks!

    Enjoy the read

    pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articl

    #science #spider #spidersilk #biology #nature #mechanics #engineering #physics

  19. My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks!

    Enjoy the read

    pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articl

    #science #spider #spidersilk #biology #nature #mechanics #engineering #physics

  20. My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks!

    Enjoy the read

    pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articl

    #science #spider #spidersilk #biology #nature #mechanics #engineering #physics

  21. Stronger than steel, softer than skin.
    A new era of medicine is being woven, literally! We explore how a Latvian biotech company is biomimetically synthesizing spider silk, nature's most perfect fiber, to create clot-resistant heart valves and scaffolds for lab-grown organs. This is the future of implantable tech.

    Read about "The Iron Thread": medium.com/@makalin/%EF%B8%8Ft

    #SpiderSilk #Biotech #MedTech #RegenerativeMedicine #Nanotechnology

  22. Stronger than steel, softer than skin.
    A new era of medicine is being woven, literally! We explore how a Latvian biotech company is biomimetically synthesizing spider silk, nature's most perfect fiber, to create clot-resistant heart valves and scaffolds for lab-grown organs. This is the future of implantable tech.

    Read about "The Iron Thread": medium.com/@makalin/%EF%B8%8Ft

    #SpiderSilk #Biotech #MedTech #RegenerativeMedicine #Nanotechnology

  23. Stronger than steel, softer than skin.
    A new era of medicine is being woven, literally! We explore how a Latvian biotech company is biomimetically synthesizing spider silk, nature's most perfect fiber, to create clot-resistant heart valves and scaffolds for lab-grown organs. This is the future of implantable tech.

    Read about "The Iron Thread": medium.com/@makalin/%EF%B8%8Ft

    #SpiderSilk #Biotech #MedTech #RegenerativeMedicine #Nanotechnology

  24. Those Strange Zigzag Decorations in Spider Webs Might Finally Have an Explanation

    A northern St Andrew’s cross female spider in Australia building a web with X-shaped stabilimenta seen radiating from…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Science #spidersilk #spiderweb #spiders #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/247220/

  25. #Arachtober 12: a small yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) perches on a fence post and releases a stream of silk strands that are separated and carried aloft by the breeze and (as we've learned in recent years) atmospheric static electricity. If the silk catches on something, the spider can use it to bridge a long gap. Smaller spiders can be borne aloft entirely and traverse long distances, a behaviour called ballooning.

    #ArthroBeauty #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae

  26. #Arachtober 12: a small yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) perches on a fence post and releases a stream of silk strands that are separated and carried aloft by the breeze and (as we've learned in recent years) atmospheric static electricity. If the silk catches on something, the spider can use it to bridge a long gap. Smaller spiders can be borne aloft entirely and traverse long distances, a behaviour called ballooning.

    #ArthroBeauty #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae

  27. #Arachtober 12: a small yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) perches on a fence post and releases a stream of silk strands that are separated and carried aloft by the breeze and (as we've learned in recent years) atmospheric static electricity. If the silk catches on something, the spider can use it to bridge a long gap. Smaller spiders can be borne aloft entirely and traverse long distances, a behaviour called ballooning.

    #ArthroBeauty #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae

  28. #Arachtober 12: a small yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) perches on a fence post and releases a stream of silk strands that are separated and carried aloft by the breeze and (as we've learned in recent years) atmospheric static electricity. If the silk catches on something, the spider can use it to bridge a long gap. Smaller spiders can be borne aloft entirely and traverse long distances, a behaviour called ballooning.

    #ArthroBeauty #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae

  29. #Arachtober 12: a small yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) perches on a fence post and releases a stream of silk strands that are separated and carried aloft by the breeze and (as we've learned in recent years) atmospheric static electricity. If the silk catches on something, the spider can use it to bridge a long gap. Smaller spiders can be borne aloft entirely and traverse long distances, a behaviour called ballooning.

    #ArthroBeauty #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae

  30. Gene Editing Spiders to Produce Red Fluorescent Silk - Regular vs gene-edited spider silk with a fluorescent gene added. (Credit: Santiag... - hackaday.com/2025/05/21/gene-e #spidersilk #science #spiders #crispr

  31. Gene Editing Spiders to Produce Red Fluorescent Silk - Regular vs gene-edited spider silk with a fluorescent gene added. (Credit: Santiag... - hackaday.com/2025/05/21/gene-e #spidersilk #science #spiders #crispr

  32. Gene Editing Spiders to Produce Red Fluorescent Silk - Regular vs gene-edited spider silk with a fluorescent gene added. (Credit: Santiag... - hackaday.com/2025/05/21/gene-e #spidersilk #science #spiders #crispr

  33. Gene Editing Spiders to Produce Red Fluorescent Silk - Regular vs gene-edited spider silk with a fluorescent gene added. (Credit: Santiag... - hackaday.com/2025/05/21/gene-e #spidersilk #science #spiders #crispr

  34. Gene Editing Spiders to Produce Red Fluorescent Silk - Regular vs gene-edited spider silk with a fluorescent gene added. (Credit: Santiag... - hackaday.com/2025/05/21/gene-e #spidersilk #science #spiders #crispr

  35. Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!

    That could account for its messy web, I think.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  36. Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!

    That could account for its messy web, I think.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  37. Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!

    That could account for its messy web, I think.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  38. Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!

    That could account for its messy web, I think.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  39. Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!

    That could account for its messy web, I think.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  40. you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"

    (second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)

    obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
    and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  41. you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"

    (second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)

    obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
    and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  42. you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"

    (second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)

    obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
    and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  43. you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"

    (second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)

    obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
    and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  44. you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"

    (second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)

    obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
    and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  45. BTW, here's what a long-jawed orbweaver egg sac looks like when complete. (I had to go home before our gal upthread was completely finished with hers, but got a pic of this fresh one by a spider who was making hers at around the same time.)

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #SpiderSilk

  46. BTW, here's what a long-jawed orbweaver egg sac looks like when complete. (I had to go home before our gal upthread was completely finished with hers, but got a pic of this fresh one by a spider who was making hers at around the same time.)

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #SpiderSilk

  47. BTW, here's what a long-jawed orbweaver egg sac looks like when complete. (I had to go home before our gal upthread was completely finished with hers, but got a pic of this fresh one by a spider who was making hers at around the same time.)

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #SpiderSilk

  48. BTW, here's what a long-jawed orbweaver egg sac looks like when complete. (I had to go home before our gal upthread was completely finished with hers, but got a pic of this fresh one by a spider who was making hers at around the same time.)

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #SpiderSilk