One remarkable twist on this strategy is seen in a species of orb-weaving spiders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Modern Love Meets the NYT Science Beat? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

Two short articles in this week's Science link the orb-weaving spiders back to a common ancestor in the Early Cretaceous, with both physical and molecular evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: June 2006 Archives] Reference

What we have is a 110-million-year-old piece of amber that preserves a piece of an orb web and some captured prey, and a new comparative study of spider silk proteins that ties together the two orb-weaving lineages, the Araneoidea and the Deinopoidea, and dates their last common ancestor to 136 million years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: June 2006 Archives] Reference

Some orb-weaving spiders have been brought on-board the International Space station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

The color is a radiant gold - the natural color of the golden orb-weaving spider, from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The space station is also home, for the next few months anyway, to two orb-weaving spiders that flew up on Endeavour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

The space station is also now home, for the next few months anyway, to two orb-weaving spiders that flew up on Endeavour.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The orb-weaving spiders were delivered by the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour, which lifted off from Florida last Friday on a 15-day mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

WASHINGTON - A new study has determined that orb-weaving spiders decorate their webs with colorful and shimmering decorations in order to lure their prey to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

The scientists fired beams of ionised metal compounds at lengths of silk from the orb-weaving spider Araneus diatematus using a technology called atomic layer deposition (ALD).    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

The butterflies are part of a scientific experiment that will examine the complete life cycle of the butterfly and the ability of an orb-weaving spider to spin a web, eat and remain healthy in space, according to NASA.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

New Scientist and the article in the Journal Science report that: the team fired beams of ionised metal compounds at lengths of silk from the orb-weaving spider Araneus diatematus using a technology called atomic layer deposition (ALD).    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Big Future] Reference

According to a report in the Natural History Magazine, the research was carried out by Laura K. WASHINGTON - A new study has determined that orb-weaving spiders decorate their webs with colorful and shimmering decorations in order to lure their prey to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

September 6th, 2006 7:51 am worth noting that David Bowie’s “Modern Love” was M’s and my “entrance” song at our reception? probably not….but dammit this is the internet. and i’m uhh glad I’m not an orb-weaving spider.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Modern Love Meets the NYT Science Beat? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference