Life in the Undergrowth Miniseries Episode 3 The Silk Spinners 2005
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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.
- Released: 2005-12-07
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: David Attenborough
- Director: David Attenborough, Mike Salisbury
