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Why Webspinners Earn the Prize for Nature’s Best Raincoat

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A close-up of an insect surrounded by a web, with fine white webbing partially covering its body and background, showing the insect's antennae, pincers, and segmented body.

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Insects known as webspinners, in the relatively understudied order Embioptera, spin the finest silk fibers known in nature. They use that silk to build shelters that, when wet, form a strong, protective film. A new study explores the silk-water interactions in four webspinner species, with lessons that could be applied in human-made, bioinspired materials. [Read more]

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