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The frequencies of a vibrating spider web have been made into music

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The frequencies of a vibrating spider web have been made into music

A virtual reality experience converts the vibrations spiders feel on their webs into sound, giving us a sense of how spiders experience the world

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water web

A tiny spider can spin different types of web for land, air and water

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spider and lizard

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Some spiders use their silk to hoist helpless prey so it cannot escape

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Some male spiders tie up females before mating to avoid being eaten

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Spider listens with its legs to grab flying insects out of the air

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daddy long-legs

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Lenses made with spider silk could help take pictures inside the body

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Spider hairs

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Millions of hairy tarantula skins could be used to mop up oil spills

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orchard spider

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Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence

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Artificial skin grown from spider silk could help heal wounds

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Artificial skin grown from spider silk could help heal wounds

Wounds and burns could one day be treated by the material spiders use to make their webs

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Spiders can ‘fly’ because they make near-invisible paragliders

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When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

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Daft male spiders prefer females who are more likely to eat them

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'Scary' spider photos on Facebook are revealing new species

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