Spider webs may act as most sensitive ‘ears’ in known natural world

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Spider webs may act as most sensitive ‘ears’ in known natural world
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We already know that spider webs vibrate when small objects fly into them, but now there’s evidence that the bridge spider uses its web as a very sensitive ear to detect the sounds made by insects flying nearby

as acoustic antennae, and because the spider silk responds so precisely to vibrating air molecules, the webs may act as the most sensitive “eardrums” in the natural world.

We already know that spiders can detect prey tangled in their webs by sensing vibrations in the silk using touch organs around their leg joints.at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and his colleagues have found evidence that bridge spiders (

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