What is Cribellate silk?
Cribellate silk is produced from many tiny, silk glands placed beneath a specialised, flattened spinning organ called the cribellum. The cribellum is placed in front of the spinnerets and is derived from spinnerets (the anterior median spinnerets) present in ancestral araneomorphs. Do all spiders have spinnerets? Most spiders have six spinnerets and four to six…