21 amazing webs that will weave your heart with tenderness (21 photos)

An ordinary little thing from Mother Nature is a cobweb. The thing with which spiders get their food, and when we get our face caught in it, we shrug it off and frown in disgust. But she can be very beautiful.





Chemically, spider web is a protein.



Spiders do not stick to the sticky threads of their own webs thanks to special hairs on their legs.









Scientists have calculated that a thread woven from spider silk, as thick as a pencil, can stop a flying Boeing 747.



The Nephila spider lives in Madagascar and East Africa. The animal itself is only 7 centimeters, but the diameter of its fishing net reaches 8 meters.





The thread of the orb weaving spider Araneus diadematus is very elastic and can be stretched 30-40% before breaking. Steel can only be stretched by 8%, and nylon by about 20%.





There are over 40,000 species of spiders, each of which can weave up to 7 different types of threads.



Another unusual property of the web is internal articulation: an object suspended on the web fiber can be rotated indefinitely in the same direction, and at the same time it will not only not twist, but will not create a noticeable counterforce at all.







Most spiders eat their old webs, as well as the flower pollen that has settled on them.





To date, they have not learned how to recreate a web in the laboratory.





If you weigh the mass of the web. which could entangle the entire globe along the equator, then this mass would be only 340 grams.