ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Supersaturation with water explains the unusual adhesion of aggregate glue in the webs of the moth-specialist spider,
Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Riparian spiders make pyriform silk attachment discs that stick better when wet than those of terrestrial spiders.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Viscid silk in spider orb webs adheres strongly across surfaces with different roughnesses and surface energies.Biology open · 2025Article
- Special Prey, Special Glue: NMR Spectroscopy on Aggregate Glue Components of Moth-Specialist Spiders, Cyrtarachninae.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Behavior and Bioadhesives: How Bolas Spiders,Insects · 2022Article
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- Spidroin profiling of cribellate spiders provides insight into the evolution of spider prey capture strategies.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The moth specialist spiderJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- Toward Spider Glue: Long Read Scaffolding for Extreme Length and Repetitious Silk Family Genes AgSp1 and AgSp2 with Insights into Functional Adaptation.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Orb webs produced by araneoid spiders depend upon aggregate glue-coated capture threads to retain their prey. Moths are challenging prey for most spiders because their scales detach and contaminate the glue droplets, significantly decreasing adhesion.
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