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Exploring Tensile Mechanics Of Cribellar Hypochilus Pococki, Morgan Waggoner
Exploring Tensile Mechanics Of Cribellar Hypochilus Pococki, Morgan Waggoner
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The two major types of silk seen, are cribellate and viscid silk. Cribellate silk is produced by the behavioral trait of combing the silk with the spiders hindlegs to achieve the adhesion property needed to capture prey in a web. This study aims to classify the most primitive cribellate capture thread, from a species not studied thus far- Hypochilus pococki. Previous studies on cribellate silk, have produced extraordinary tensile results, increasing the need to study more cribellate species (Michalik et al, 2019). The results found suggest that Hypochilus pococki, does not exhibit extreme values of tensile mechanics, but more …