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Our expert reveals why it's not just prey the arachnids catch on their silk creations, and why different spiders make different kinds of web, using different kinds of silk! Anna Maka is a spider ecologist at Natural England and the University of Nottingham, she tells Elliott Webb why some spiders even eat their own webs, and how spiders can make web as long as they have food, akin to humans always being able to make saliva. Image credit: Barnaby Perkins
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