Smithsonian Magazine5d
Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...
Spider sense: Study tracks how web-building arachnids adapt to noise
Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, construction and more clutter the outdoor soundscape, challenging animals' ...
Earth.com6d
Spiders adapt their webs to filter out human-made noise
The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.
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Terrifying 'spider rain' leaves locals on high alert and scientists baffled
These social spiders collaboratively construct a vast ... Before this, they've stayed hidden in trees and their webs go unnoticed. "Every year at this time they appear, and for us it's always ...
Daily Mail10y
Spider webs are nature's GUITARS: Silk 'music' created when insects pluck the threads reveals information about their prey
‘Most spiders have poor eyesight and rely almost exclusively on the vibration of the silk in their web for sensory information,’ said Beth Mortimer of the Oxford Silk Group who led the ...