STRESSES ON AERIAL WEBS. “As spiders began to build aerial orb-webs, their silks faced new selective pressures. For example, insects in mid-flight strike webs with greater kinetic energy than experienced by ancestral substrate-bound webs (and derived sheet- and cobwebs) that intercept ambulatory prey, or prey attempting to land. Additionally, webs suspended in space are subjected to much greater wind stress, even more so if anchored to flexible substrates such as grasses.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022