Article Here: http://www.quantumday.com/2013/07/spi... A study from biologists in University of California, Berkeley, show that spider webs uses the electrical charge in insects to help better capture them. High-speed video shows how charged insects (a bee, a fly and an aphid) falling toward a spider web deform the silk by electrostatic attraction before they make contact. The final frames shows how a silk thread rapidly deforms to stick to a charged water droplet. Credit: By Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez, UC Berkeley.Electrostatic Charge Helps Spider Web Catch Insects (High Speed Video) - YouTube | |
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