Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Dylan's Report on Spider's Webs.

Silk is what spiders make their webs with. Spider's silk is runny. The silk is squeezed through tubes from the spiders bottom half, at the end of the spider. After the silk is runny, it goes hard like steel. Silk is very thin. It takes a spider one minute to make one meter of silk. One million webs is what one tea spoon of silk can make. It takes a spider almost thirty meters of silk to make one web. Spiders eat their old web before making a new one.
When spiders are on their web they can't get stuck. Spiders webs are made with sticky and dry threads. The spider walks on the dry threads, so it does not step on the sticky threads. Only the spider knows where the dry threads are.

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