동아사이언스

아라크네의 자식들

과학동아 1992년 09호

springs" that connect more rigid parts of the silk.Spider silk can't be woven into cloth, like that produced by the silkworm, but humans do find a good use for it as hairlines in optical instruments. Different spiders use their own silk in different ways. Some make flat sheets of it to line their tunnels or put in front of the nest hole, with trip threads that will signal when something ...