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I'm a starved spider.

What about a wolf?

Here is a pest, devastating pest, a spider mite, because it does a lot of webbing like a spider.

But what, exactly, is spider silk?

Spider silk is almost entirely protein.

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There's a spider in the box.

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In addition to these biomimetic applications of spider silks, personally, I find studying spider silks just fascinating in and of itself.

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There are many kinds of spider silk.

And this spider spins a bilingual alphabet.

She shrieked whenever she saw a spider.

This is a picture of the spinnerets coming out of a spider and the silk being formed from a spider. Isn't that beautiful?

This is not a spider, it's a monster!

The boy said a wolf would come.

So silk comes out of the spinnerets, and for those of us spider silk biologists, this is what we call the business end of the spider.

We call that the tool kit of a spider.

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So one of these works is the Spelling Spider.

These are spinneret glands on the abdomen of a spider.

That's what the spider has to interact with their environment.

This is the dragline spun by scytodes, the spitting spider.

You can't help but actually ripping that spider web apart.

One day she met a wolf in the woods.

To give you an idea of what a spider silk protein looks like, this is a dragline silk protein, it's just a portion of it, from the black widow spider.

Turning rocks over revealed this crab spider grappling with a beetle.

How does an individual spider make so many kinds of silk?

Inside each spider, there are hundreds of silk glands, sometimes thousands.

So the Spelling Spider is a cousin of the spelling bee.

But here comes nature that provides us with a good spider.

And in the back you can see a spider web pattern.

This is a predatory mite just as small as a spider mite, by the way, one millimeter, two millimeters long, not more than that, running quickly, hunting, chasing the spider mites.

For example, this garden spider can make seven different kinds of silks.

Silks made by the same spider can have dramatically different repeat sequences.

And I normally rig it with the web of a money spider.

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

The parable of those who take guardians instead of Allah is that of the spider that takes a home, and indeed the frailest of homes is the home of a spider, had they known!

The parable of those who take guardians instead of Allah is that of the spider that takes a home, and indeed the frailest of homes is the home of a spider, had they known!

We spend long days and nights staring at this part of the spider.