A silver Argiope spider in a spiderweb with stabilimenta. Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons When imagining a spider web, chances are most people envision a typical spiral, wheel-shaped ...
The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature “extra touches” known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...