Posted by: Sandy Steinman | November 21, 2025

Spider web ‘decorations’ may help pinpoint location of captured prey

Phy.org reported

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature “extra touches” known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help spiders locate captured prey.

Read on phys.org/news/2025-10-spider-web-captured-prey.html


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