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Silk is the trademark of spiders. It is produced as a liquid within special glands in the abdomen. The spider uses its leg as a comb and pulls the liquid out through tiny spigots on the spinnerets, so the molecules realign into a line of silk. This is a native orb-web spider.
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by Simon Pollard
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