These images are of giant spider's web found in Madagascar. This is an orb web, which is the type of web most commonly thought about. This one in particular which was found is 25m2. This is really interesting to read about as I did not know that spider's webs could be created on this large a scale.
I feel like scale is something which we consider within this project. Spider's are thought to be quite small and it might be interesting to explore the contrast between webs which are tiny, and full of minute detail, and pieces which are much larger. This would be something which we would need to think about and consider as a group.
Walker, M. (2010, September 16). Gigantic Spider's Web discovered in Madagascar. BBC. Retrieved from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9001000/9001866.stm
Jennifer
This is really interesting to see that spiders can produce webs at such a vast scale. It would be interesting to see if we could have a go at producing versions of these webs at very minute scales as well as much larger scales.
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