Watch Life in the Undergrowth Season 1 Episode 3 The Silk Spinners
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The Silk Spinners Season 1 Episode 3 Aired date: Dec 7, 2005 Plot: 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... MORE |
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Release Date: 2005
Duration: 50 min
Invertebrates had been largely ignored by filmmakers in the past, due to the difficulties in filming them, but advances in lens...more
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