How Spiders Create Silk Threads

[Liffrea]

Lowering pH Regulates Spider’s Silk Production, Researchers Find

How can a tiny spider body contain material for several decimeters of gossamer silk, and what governs the conversion to thread? Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Sweden can now explain this process.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0514151853.htm

[Cato]

'cause the chinks aren't making enough silk, or quality products of any sort, these days?