A recent study published in Scientific Reports, an online science journal, revealed that webs of the common garden spider – made from silk thread – are attracted to electrostatically charged objects. Honeybees and fruit flies, for example, generate an electric charge when they flap their wings.

Positively charged insects and water droplets falling towards a grounded orb web reveal rapid and substantial web attraction. Radial and particularly spiral silk threads are quickly attracted to the electrified bodies. VIA: –PRESURFER–