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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
The team focused on the Pennsylvania grass spider (Agelenopsis pennsylvanica ... tells the New York Times’ Joshua Rapp Learn. Spider Webs Transmit Vibrations Like Guitar Strings The researchers ...
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Everyone in the City Needs Soundproofing, Even Spiders
Quarter-size with legs outstretched, these spiders attach their webs to everything, whether rocks and grass or human objects. They weave a kind of funnel into their webs where they typically hide ...