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Cross orb weaver (Argiope chloreis) - P3281661 by nickybay
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Seen here is the underside of a adult female Wasp Spider showing the silk being pulled out by the gravity of the spiders hind legs. When inside the body the silk is a liquid and at the tip of the abdomen are the spiders spinneret glands and each gland will produce a thread of silk which can be for example a special purpose for trapping, silk for wrapping the prey or for a safety line, some spiders can produce at least six different kinds of silk. If spiders were scaled to the same size as us it is said that the web would be strong enough to catch a helicopter. It has also been claimed that a cable of silk as thick as a thumb woven from spider silk would be able to bear the weight of a jumbo jet
