ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021
How spiders hunt heavy prey: the tangle web as a pulley and spider's lifting mechanics observed and quantified in the laboratory.
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- Influence of experimental methods on the mechanical properties of silk fibers: A systematic literature review and future road map.Biophysics reviews · 2023Review
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- Mitochondrial phylogenomics provides insights into the phylogeny and evolution of spiders (Arthropoda: Araneae).Zoological research · 2022Article
- Artificial and natural silk materials have high mechanical property variability regardless of sample size.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Protein Composition and Associated Material Properties of Cobweb Spiders' Gumfoot Glue Droplets.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Article
- Tidy dataset of the experimental design of the optimization of the alkali degumming process of Bombyx mori silk.Data in brief · 2021Article
- Locomotion and kinematics of arachnids.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The spiders of Theridiidae's family display a peculiar behaviour when they hunt extremely large prey. They lift the quarry, making it unable to escape, by attaching pre-tensioned silk threads to it. In this work, we analysed for the first time in the laboratory the lifting hunting mechanism and, in order to quantify the phenomenon, we applied the lifting mechanics theory. The comparison between the experiments and the theory suggests that, during the process, spiders do not stretch the silk too much by keeping it in the linear elastic regime. We thus report here further evidence for the strong role of silk in spiders' evolution, especially how spiders can stretch and use it as an external tool to overcome their muscles' limits and capture prey with large mass, e.g. 50 times the spider's mass.
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