Giant Golden Orb Weaver Silk is Just About as Strong as Steel

For the male orb-weaver spider, love bites. If they don’t escape immediately after mating, they are promptly consumed by their female partner. But a new study reveals a trick the males deploy to avoid this fate: They catapult away from their cannibalistic mates in a never-before-described feat of arachnid gymnastics. Learn more: https://fcld.ly/89nr7z3 #ScienceReels | Science

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