Thursday, 9 February 2012

SPIDER'S SILK


Spider silk is a protein fiber. Spins by spider. Spider use their silk to make webs or others structure . All spider silk produced and a single spider can produced up to seven different types of silk for a different uses this is an contrast to insect silk. Many  species  of  spider  have different glands to produced silk  with a different purpose including web, construction, housing, defense, capturing, detaining pray, egg protection and mobility also.

                Different specialized silk  have evolved with  the properties suitable for different uses. Spider fibre is also used for making clothes, as well as parachute. Scientists are also trying to form this fibre through artifical methods not direcly from spiders but they are still not succesful to get this fibre from artifical method but they are continously trying .
                A rare textile mabe from  the silk of more than a millon wild spiders goes on display at the American museum of natural history in Newyork city. To producedthe unique golden cloth tp people spentfour yeras collecting goldenorb spider from telephone poles in nadagascar.
                Thus we can say that we are using spiders webs for different purposes and we are getting benefits from it..............................
 

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