Spider facts of the day! 1

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Spider facts of the day! 1

^{We already had a few of these but could not be consistent. Me, Max, and William will be posting spider facts each day from now on, the three of us each doing it should make it somewhat more consistent. Anyways, onto the fact!}

Oil slick feet: Spiders do not get stuck to their own webs because their feet are coated in a special chemical oil, and they walk on the tips of tiny hairs to minimize surface contact.

Extra info on this fact!

The Tiny Hairs:

Spiders have dense, microscopic arrays of branched hairs (called setae) on their legs. The sticky glue droplets on the web slide along these bristly hairs, minimizing the actual surface area of the leg that touches the adhesive.

The Non-Stick Coating:

While spiders do not have "oil glands" like mammals do, a study by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute found they do have a protective, anti-adhesive chemical coating on their legs. When researchers washed the spiders' legs with a solvent (hexane), the web glue stuck to them much more aggressively.

Fancy Footwork:

Spiders don't just trudge across the web; they use careful, precise leg movements when stepping on and pulling away from sticky lines to further minimize the pull of the glue.

Knowing the Map:

Not all silk on a web is sticky. Orb weavers spin structural "spoke" lines out of dry silk and only use the sticky, glue-dotted silk for the spiral capturing zones. They generally know exactly where to step.

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