Spider silk able to catch jet fighter in flight without breaking.

For more than a quarter of a century scientists have been trying to find ways of producing industrial-scale quantities of spider silk

could in theory catch a fighter jet in flight without breaking.

However, unlike the caterpillars of the silk moth Bombyx mori, spiders are territorial, aggressive and prone to cannibalism, making it impossible to rear them in the population densities required for commercial silk production.

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