These stabilimenta were the source of inspiration for EB White, who was struggling to come up with ideas for his second novel. One day he noticed the additional decorations on the web of a Banded Garden Spider. It was from this natural inspiration that he would come up with the idea of a writing spider and would go on to write one of the world’s most cherished children’s books, Charlotte’s Web. Pop over to the Ark in Space for the full story of the spiders that decorate their own webs together with some amazing pictures.
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