Smithsonian Magazine3d
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 ...
The New York Times6d
Everyone in the City Needs Soundproofing, Even Spiders
Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise pollution. By Joshua Rapp Learn There’s nothing worse than a noisy neighbor ...
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 ...