Life in the Undergrowth

Life in the Undergrowth

The Silk Spinners (1x3)


Exibido em:: Dez 07, 2005

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.

  • Estreou: Nov 2005
  • Episódios: 5
  • Seguidores: 18
  • Finalizada
  • BBC One
  • Quarta-Feira