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Article: CATERPILLARS MAKE HOME SECURITY SYSTEMS OUT OF SILK
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- October 15, 2008
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Washington, Oct. 15 -- (ANI): A study has revealed that metalmark moth caterpillars make home security systems out of silk.The new finding attains significance because, thus far, spiders were considered to be the only animals to detect tremors in their webs caused by foreign objects. Researchers behind this discovery have revealed that some caterpillars in the genus Brenthia have the capability to sense disturbances, and that they use threads in their silk shelters like tripwires."I noticed that the caterpillars kept a couple of really long hairs in contact with the silk shelter, and was curious whether they were using ...