To survive, web-building spiders rely on their capture threads to restrain prey. Many species
use special adhesives for this task, and again the majority of those species cover their …

Most spiders rely on specialized capture threads to subdue prey. Cribellate spiders use
capture threads, whose adhesion is based on thousands of nanofibers instead of …

Cribellar thread is the most primitive type of sticky prey capture thread found in aerial spider
webs. Its outer surface is formed of thousands of fine fibrils that issue from a cribellum …

Insects represent the main prey of spiders, and spiders and insects co-diversified in
evolutionary history. One of the main features characterizing spiders is their web as a trap to …

Composites, both natural and synthetic, achieve novel functionality by combining two or
more constituent materials. For example, the earliest adhesive silk in spider webs–cribellate …

Modern orb-weaving spiders have evolved well-designed adhesives to capture preys. This
adhesive is laid on a pair of axial silk fibres as micron-sized glue droplets that are composed …

The sticky prey capture threads of orb-webs are critical to web performance. By retaining
insects that strike the web, these spirally arrayed threads allow a spider time to locate and …

Spiders employ clever behavioral strategies combined with almost invisible custom-made
adhesive silk fibers to spin prey capture webs. The adhesives used in these webs evolved …

Spiders spin a variety of silk fibers and integrate them into webs with a wide range of
architectures. Combined with clever behavioral strategies, these webs serve as effective …

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 …