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Noisy Environments Impact How Spiders Build Their Webs
Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to an increase in environmental noise. By now, residents have grown ...
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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 ...
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 ...