Life in the Undergrowth - Season 1 Episode 3 The Silk Spinners
Silk is the invertebrates' great invention, used in a range of ways from from the protective stalks of lacewing eggs to the amazing hanging threads of New Zealand's 'glow worms'. Spiders, though, have taken silk-spinning to extremes. The common wolf spider has no web, but the female is a gentle parent, encasing her eggs in silk and carrying the precious bundle wherever she goes. The bolas spider uses a ball of sticky silk soaked in a copy of moth pheromone to lure its prey. Millions of communal spiders live and feed together in a vast, towering web - an arachnophobe's nightmare.
Year: 2005
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: BBC One
Director:
Cast: David Attenborough
Crew: David Attenborough (Writer), Michael Salisbury (Producer)
First Air Date: Nov 23, 2005
Last Air date: Dec 21, 2005
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 5 Episode
Runtime: 49 minutes
IMDb: 8.30/10 by 44.00 users
Popularity: 4.2964
Language: English
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