Evolution of Spider Webs

When it comes to creative methods of catching prey not many animals are able to rival spiders. Not just being among the small group of animals that create traps to catch their prey but also having many different methods of trapping the prey. And central to nearly all their trapping methods is their ability to spin a web. However, the way in which they do this is evolutionary puzzling because the way they catch their prey is quite advanced and it seems that the precursor to these abilities: just the ability to produce silk, would be useless to hunt creatures on its own. So how did spiders develop such complex prey catching abilities

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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0901377106
https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2008.1331
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15578#:~:text=On%20the%20basis%20of%20their,other%20strategies%20for%20capturing%20prey.
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