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2. Spider web - Wikipedia

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   A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider") [ 1] is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey . Spider webs have existed for at least 100 million years, as witnessed in a rare find of Early Cretaceous amber ...

3. Argiope (spider) - Wikipedia

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   In North America, Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the black and yellow garden spider, zipper spider, corn spider, or writing spider, because of the similarity of the web stabilimenta to writing. The East Asian species Argiope amoena is known in Japan as kogane-gumo. In the Philippines, they are known as gagambang ekis ("X spider"), and ...

4. Argiope trifasciata - Wikipedia

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   Female The banded orb weaving spider wraps up a large milkweed bug and subsequently cuts it from its web. This illustrates the protection the bug gained form feeding on milkweed. Argiope trifasciata (the banded garden spider or banded orb weaving spider) [2] is a species of spider native to North and South America, but now found around the ...

5. Effect of psychoactive drugs on animals - Wikipedia

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   In 1948, Swiss pharmacologist Peter N. Witt started his research on the effect of drugs on spiders.The initial motivation for the study was a request from his colleague, zoologist H. M. Peters, to shift the time when garden spiders build their webs from between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., which was decidedly inconvenient for Peters, to earlier hours. [4]

6. Argiope aurantia - Wikipedia

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   Argiope aurantia is a species of spider, commonly known as the yellow garden spider, [2] [3] black and yellow garden spider, [4] golden garden spider, [5] writing spider, zigzag spider, zipper spider, black and yellow argiope, corn spider, Steeler spider, or McKinley spider. [6] The species was first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1833.

7. Stabilimentum - Wikipedia

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   Stabilimentum. Argiope flavipalpis adult female. An Argiope juvenile female. spiders both same genus. on the stabilimentum at the center of the web. A stabilimentum (plural: stabilimenta ), also known as a web decoration, is a conspicuous silk structure included in the webs of some species of orb-web spider. Its function is a subject of debate.

8. Agelenopsis - Wikipedia

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   Agelenopsis, commonly known as the American grass spiders, is a genus of funnel weavers described by C.G. Giebel in 1869. [ 1] They weave sheet webs that have a funnel shelter on one edge. The web is not sticky, but these spiders make up for that by running very rapidly. The larger specimens (depending on species) can grow to about 19 mm in ...

9. Spider Web Cupcakes Recipe - AOL

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   Heat the oven to 350°F. Place paper liners into 24 (2 1/2-inch) muffin-pan cups. Stir the flour, granulated sugar, salt and baking powder in a large bowl.