As It Happens6:05Spider webs catch more than prey. They’re also jam-packed with animal DNA
Josh Newton probably isn’t very popular with spiders. After all, the Australian scientist has a tendency to go around undoing their hard work.
“I liken it to when Princess Fiona in Shrek makes some cotton candy for Shrek from spider webs, where she collects a stick and just wraps around the spider web for him. But I do it with a clean, sterile stick,” Newton, a PhD candidate in life sciences at Curtin University, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
“And then I just wrap the spider web up and put
