 What
is spider web?
How
does WebMaster work?
To understand how
WebMaster works, it
helps to know a bit about spiders and their web construction.
The spider makes the web
material (silk)
in glands called spinnerets at the rear of its body. The silk
is
in the form of liquid protein inside the gland, and it hardens on
contact with air as the spider spins it out.
Spiders can produce
several different
kinds of silk in the construction of their webs. Some are dry
and
hard, forming the web structure, and some are soft and sticky to catch
the prey. The spider can move around the web without getting stuck
using the dry hard strands.
When the spider begins
its web, the first
thing it does is build attachment points on the wall surface.
Then it attaches the structural strands of the web to these
anchors. These attachment points are tiny discs of the sticky
type of silk, and they glue the web in place.
The vinegar in WebMaster attacks this sticky silk, dissolving the
attachment points and so ungluing the web from the wall surface.
This is possible because the acid in the vinegar is able to
break
down the protein. While it stays on the surface, the spider
cannot build any more attachment points there because the acid will not
let them stick. |
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