These are essentially burrowing spiders and their webs are in the shape of compact, upright silk tube that sticks out from their burrows and looks like an old-fashioned pull-string purse.

By plucking the silk like a guitar string and listening to the "echoes" the spider can also assess the condition of its web.’ This technique is used by the spider in its web by ‘tuning’ the ...

To narrow their investigation, they focused on the major silk type, which makes up the radial threads of the web. Using mass ... bioengineers have used spider silk for suturing at the cellular level.