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Web

Description:

Some spiders build webs. The yarns of these webs, consisting of silk, are produced in special glands located in the abdomen of the spider. A silk is expelled liquid through tiny little tubes, on the back of the abdomen. Upon leaving, silk solidifies immediately on contact with the air, forming wire urn with which the spider produces the web. The webs are used to trap small animals, mostly insects, which feed these spiders, they kill them with chelicerae. Each species has a spider web pattern characteristic, whereby one can often classify it.

Habitat:

I found this web in a forest in a mountainous region.

Notes:

Unfortunately, because of the incidence of the Sun and the local web was, I could not shoot the spider

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LeonardoMB
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LeonardoMB

São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, Brazil

Spotted on Feb 11, 2013
Submitted on Feb 11, 2013

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