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I'm wondering whether you can recognize this spider and give it a name.
Location: Melbourne Outer East backyard
Date: 18-03-2017
The spider has been occupying that area for about three months while expanding the web & growing in size.
You can see a little fella right next to her, sticking around her with the hope of getting lucky, but little he knows
once he's done with serving the purpose, he has a high probability of ending up inside her belly.
The spider has a fat belly, no doubt filled with thousands of eggs.
She built a quite an elaborate & large spider web over time.
When I touch her, she would bounce violently on the web.
The spring action of the web is pretty amazing.
Too bad we still haven't figured out how to mass produce the spider web cotton.
It's the next industrial revolution waiting to happen, once or if we figure out that.
Yes the orb has some of the toughest web going
around even NASA are trying to duplicate it
Arthur C. Clarke was talking about it back in early 1960's.
I wonder if we may have already figured out how to produce it in bio labs but dunno how to mass produce it yet.
If we do, it's the new building material of the 21st century that should allow skyscrapers to hit the space, which may
make the present day skyscrapers look like ancient skycrappers.
two things that I know of they cant reproduce ATM,,, one is a feather.
trying to get a product so light yet so strong is proving difficult.
cob web is the other
04 ST 3lt auto, not enough Mods to keep me happy, but getting there
Yes the orb has some of the toughest web going
around even NASA are trying to duplicate it
Wife and i were on Norfolk Island with the camera club last year. There were thousands of these orb spiders with the biggest and strongest webs imaginable. The webs glistened in the morning with the dew and shone at dust with the fading sun. At first the women were afraid of them but their webs changed all that.
Am I incorrect in my belief that nylon (aramid/aramide - name perhaps derived from arachnid) is our attempt at synthesising spiderweb. Similar thing with Kevlar???
Wife and i were on Norfolk Island with the camera club last year. There were thousands of these orb spiders with the biggest and strongest webs imaginable. The webs glistened in the morning with the dew and shone at dust with the fading sun. At first the women were afraid of them but their webs changed all that.
Orb spiders are pretty harmless, and they have pretty small fangs, not venomous to humans, but I'm sure deadly to other insects.
Am I incorrect in my belief that nylon (aramid/aramide - name perhaps derived from arachnid) is our attempt at synthesising spiderweb. Similar thing with Kevlar???
Nylon has been around for long time, hasn't it? Since 1930's according to wikipedia.
Not sure about the origin of the name though. Wiki says it's a made up name.
Invention of nylon made a huge difference to string instruments like classical guitars. Before that they were using steel strings or strings made out of guts of animals.