Spider Silk: Spinning Your Way to Dinner and New Home

Explore the fascinating world of spiders, both local and exotic, with Dr. Todd Blackledge from the University of Akron. His program, “Spider Silk; Spinning Your Way to Dinner and New Home”, reveals how the unique toolkit of silks spun by spiders has helped to make them among the most dominant predators on the planet. You’ll learn the answer to many questions such as “is silk really as strong as steel?”, “why was a spider the first animal to colonize the volcano Krakatau?” and “how can a spider with eight eyes be nearly blind but still find its way around its web?”

Please RSVP to Brendan Reynolds - Reynolds@clevelandzoosociety.org

Space is limited