It's tiny, inscrutable, made with spider silk, and we really don't know much about the mysteries of it's intricate construction.

Show Notes:

Nat Geo https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/silkhenge-spiders-ecuador-mystery

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkhenge

Internet archive https://web.archive.org/web/20201108125631/https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2014/01/09/mystery-picket-fence-in-amazon-explained-2/

Earthtouch news network https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/discoveries/remember-those-mystery-silkhenge-spiders-now-you-can-watch-them-hatch/

Youtube spiders hatching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unc-g9AHl2Y&t=106s

Linkedin post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dante-fenolio-ms-ph-d-76833a52_silkhenge-spider-amazon-activity-7147602639663316992-gZY4

Live science https://www.livescience.com/silkhenge-returns-video.html

Live science2 https://www.livescience.com/57401-silkhenge-spiders-hatch-on-video.html

Youttube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unc-g9AHl2Y

iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&q=silkhenge&subview=map

Medicinal leeches: https://media.vwr.com/emdocs/docs/scied/Medicinal_Leeches.pdf

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