Wednesday 10 July 2013

How to apply silk on kale plants

1. Milk a Tetragnatha extensa using a plastic frame; let the spider hang from her silk strand and rotate the frame to extract silk from the spider.


2. Count the number of silk strands that are on the frame (depending on the stage of the experiment, this can vary between 10 and 20 strands per frame)


3. Apply silk through passing the frame over a kale plant.




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