Posts tagged with ‘taratulas’

A tarantula’s secret to walking up walls: Webs out of their feet

The secret to walking up walls for most spiders and insects is pretty simple— teeny tiny hairs on the bottom of their feet that cling to a vertical surface. Tarantulas have the same hairs, but they’re also pretty hefty spiders, so just tiny hairs alone aren’t enough to provide the same gravity-defying stickiness. For tarantulas, their secret also involves excreting sticky web material from their feet.

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