Is spider silk the same as spider poop?

No, not at all. Spider 'poop' ranges from black through pinkish tan to whitish and comes in small drops. It is waste from the digestion of food.

Spiders do not have separate urine and feces, and their droppings consist largely of guanine, which is a component of DNA and found in all living things. Spider silk is completely different. Spider's silk is made up of chains of amino acids, otherwise known as a protein.

The spider's body makes a gel called "silk dope" that it stores in the body. The dope is pulled through the silk glands to form a strand. Various glands change the condition of the silk until it is the form the spider needs for the job at hand.

The spinneret, the visible part of the silk gland, then emits the silk strand when the spider needs it. Spiders will have anywhere from two to eight spinnerets. There are seven types of silk produced by seven silk glands.

A single spider does not possess all seven glands but has at least three if it is male (dragline, attachment and swathing silk) or four if it is female. The additional one is for egg sac silk. The seven types of gland are: Achniform gland: swathing silk.

Cylindriform gland: egg sac silk. Ampullate glands (major and minor): non-sticky dragline silk. Silk from the minor ampullate gland is only half as strong as that from the major gland.

Pyriform gland: attaching threads - attachment discs are made which anchor a thread to a surface or another thread. Flagelliform gland: core fibres of sticky silk. Aggregate gland: outer part of sticky silk - droplets of an adhesive substance are deposited along the threads.

Sources: en.wikipedia. Org/wiki/Spider_silk AND science.howstuffworks. Com/question87.

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No Spider silk comes from special organs called "spinnerets". They come in many shapes, but here’s a picture of them on one kind of spider: The spider has a digestive tract that goes all the way through it, connecting the mouth to the anus, which is where the "poop" comes out. You can actually see the anus in the picture above; it’s a flat line just above the spinnerets.

Here’s a diagram of the spider’s cross-section: The digestive tract is highlighted in green. The mouth is on the bottom left, and the anus is on the right. You can see the spinnerets just below it.(The branch at the top left is a diverticulum, an extra pouch in the digestive tract.

Its purpose is not entirely understood; it may act to excrete digestive juices, or it may help maintain pressure in the digestive tract to keep food moving. ) Sources: tolweb.org/accessory/Jumping_Spider_Dige... .

This is a real random crap question No spider silk is not spider poop. The silk is generated by special glands that admit the silk as a liquid and when it hits the air it hardens in to spider silk. This silk is a hundred times stronger then steel in preportion to is weight.

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