There could be a way to speedily identify the different species of spider that are found in dense jungle and forest, using an automatic web recognition system.
Usually, working out which spiders are which can be a cumbersone, long-winded process, involving tweezers and specimen jars and many hours under a bright lamp in the case of rare and unusual species. A team from signals and communications department of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, led by Jaime
Ticay-Rivas, decided to instead use a spider's web as a kind of "biometric identification" to automate the process.
By: Ian Steadman, Edited by: Nate Lanxon
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