spider web, n.Trivia

A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.

Tinsel originates from an old tale of a spider decorating a poor family's tree with webs that turned to gold and silver in the morning sunlight

spider silk is stored in its body as a liquid and only hardens when it comes into contact with the air.

The golden Silk Orb Weave spider's web is so strong that it can capture a bird, of which the spider then eats.

Spiderwebs come out as liquid which hardens as it makes contact with the air and becomes very strong.

Spiders, in part, store their memories and cognitive abilities in their webs. Destroying a web partially erases a spider's memory.

Spider webs can be huge ---- the Anelosimus Eximius can live in communities of over 50,000 spiders on one web.

cobwebs actually have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, and were used in ancient Greece and Rome by physicians to make bandages.

A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.