SPIDER WEB EVOLUTION. “Subsequent to the orb’s origin, aqueous viscid silk replaced cribellate silk and the orb was transformed at least 3 times into less regular appearing aerial sheet webs. Moreover, the orb web has been highly reduced independently in tetragnathoids and Araneidae.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/13/5229.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022