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Spider silk

Protein fiber made by spidersA female specimen of Argiope bruennichi wraps her prey in silk.Indian Summer by Józef Chełmoński (1875, National Museum in Warsaw) depicts a peasant woman with a thread of gossamer in her hand.Spider silk is a proteinfibre or silk spun by spiders.

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