Thats Using Your Head: How Spiders Avoid Getting Tangled in Webs
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You’d think spiders would get stuck in their sticky webs, but they’ve evolved ways around it. Their legs have slippery hairs and chemical coatings. They use different silks for structure and sticking. Orb weavers carefully build support strands before adding the sticky stuff. And dewdrop spiders even freeload on orb webs without getting stuck!
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