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the strongest material a creature builds is also the one it eats every morning
means A spiderweb is the delicate, often radial structure of silk threads a spider spins to trap prey, sense vibrations, or shelter itself.
from A plain compound of "spider" + "web," both old Germanic words. "Spider" comes from Old English "spithra," tied to the verb "spinnan" — to spin — so the creature is literally "the spinner." "Web" descends from Old English "webb," meaning a woven fabric, from the same root that gives us "weave." Put together, the word names exactly what it is: the woven thing made by the spinner.
- tensile strength
- tougher than steel by weight
- recycling
- spiders eat old webs to rebuild
- engineering
- some silk is stickier than others on purpose
- UV trick
- some webs glow to lure insects
- oldest fossil
- silk dates back 100 million years
spider web of strands — orb weaver spiders create geometric webs with up to 30 radial threads and 2000+ spiral threads per web
darwin's bark spider web — largest known spider web, 900 square meters in madagascar, made with silk 10x stronger than steel