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Hola:No puedo encontrar palabras para expresar mi más sincera gratitud a todos ustedes que han ayudado de una forma u otra a este proyecto. Estamos sobre el 50% de nuestra meta.Sin embargo tengo q...
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Hello Dear Backers:I can't find good enough words to express my most sincere gratitude to all of you who have supported in one way or another this project. We are over 50% funded as of now and is ...
Much more than spiders
In the field you get to see many other things. Enjoy pictures of animals (Native and Introduced) taken in the big Island of Hawai'i.Photo credit: Raymond McGuireThe pueo (Asio flammeus sandwichens...
Harvesting silk in the lab / Colectando seda en el laboratorio
Harvesting silk directly from the spider spinnerets allows collection of just one type of silk under control conditions. In the lab is possible to control the speed of spinning at which the silk is...
How are T.hawaiensis and T.stelarobusta similar / Descubre como dos especies se comportan de forma similar.
.hawaiensis (Simon 1900) is commonly found in multiple islands of the archipelago. Webs from this specie found in the big island of Hawai'i have extremely similar architectures to we...
This is "Tris"/ Conozcan a Tris
T.trituberculata or Tris for short, lives in the wet native forest of East Maui. Trituberculata is a combination of Greek and Latin [Tri (Greek) three; tuberculutn(Latin) tubercle], meaning three t...
Meet "Stella"/ Les presento a "Stela"
T.stelarobusta or as we like to call her* Stella, lives in the wet native forest of East Maui. Her name is a combination of Greek and Latin [Stele (Greek) cylinder; robustus (Latin) robust] and it...
Exiting Preliminary Results
Glue droplets in the capture spirals of the orb-web help in retaining the insect long enough for the spider to reach it. We can test stickiness of glue in the lab by measuring the force required t...
Want to take a moment to say THANK YOU.
Words are not enough to express all my gratitude. Thank you all for the support in getting this project a step closer to our goal. In the first 4 days of this challenged we managed to reach a 13...