When they feel threatened, cellar spiders will vibrate their webs rapidly, presumably to confuse or deter the predator. It's unclear whether this makes the pholcid more difficult to see or catch, but it's a strategy that seems to work for the cellar spider. Some people refer to them as ...
SpiderSilkProteinSenescenceHabitatDifferent class of spiders spin silk to construct different web architectures. Spider's silk is an extraordinary semi-crystalline biopolymer, which is highly tough and elastic. In the present study wedoi:10.1007/s40009-017-0577-yChaudhary, Ankita...
2000). This mass aggregation of pholcids results from the crowding of spiders in small habitat patches. As the web becomes crowded with huge individual numbers, where competition for prey, reproduction, and survival are high, spiders seek to build solitary webs at a suitable site. In Malaysia,...