Talk:Stabilimentum

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This article has a lot of very specific information, yet no sources. Come on! -b 02:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Male Attraction? The last paragraph is based on an unpublished study. Whilst it is an interesting theory, it has no support in the scientific literature and thus probably does not deserve such prominence in a short article. Messymatt 13:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Look at the Function paragraph. I didn't realize that spiders were capable of aesthetics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.209.44.86 (talk) 15:44, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

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Picture of the day

An Argiope species of orb-weaver spider sitting on a stabilimentum, the conspicuous silk structure at the center of the web. The purpose of these objects is unknown, although there are a number of theories. It was originally believed to help stabilize the web (hence the term stabilimentum), but this idea is dismissed nowadays.Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Function

I always thought the "function" of these balls of web in the center of webs was obvious: It's last night's web, collected into a pile. The pile itself serves no purpose. But where else was the spider going to put all that web? Just throw it on the ground, to waste? I've seen spiders make these things; They take their existing web, and pull it inwards towards the center of the web, effectively destroying it to make way for a new, stickier web. The pattern at which they destroy their old web leads to the pattern of the "web decoration" in the center. But often it is just an ugly white mass. The decoration gets larger and larger every time they take down an old web. I do not think they are using this decoration for any purpose, i think it is the product of making a new web every night. moeburn (talk) 15:28, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

I think I read long ago that they eat and recycle the old silk. The decoration is too tidily structured. Close observation will show the stabilimentum being added as the last step of construction. No ? [citations needed]--195.137.93.171 (talk) 02:40, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Subject/Grammatical Person

Two paragraphs above "adaptation" the subject of the paragraph suddenly changes to first-person-plural ("we"). This reads as if it were copy-and-pasted directly from a study, or at the very least seems inconsistent with style guidelines. Changing it will not be as simple as simply removing and replacing all instances; of course the entire grammar structure needs to be fixed. With that in mind, I didn't want to make any edits until I was certain there wasn't some strange reason behind it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.109.183.18 (talk) 18:16, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

You're right, it's a copypaste from the abstract. 72.152.229.225 (talk) 01:42, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

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Title

I think the title is ambiguous. The stabilimentum is not only a "decoration" as shown in the article. I suggest to move the page at "Stabilimentum" as in other wiki appears, instead of being it a redirect. --Lorenzo Longo (talk) 19:55, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Can someone please move it to the right title? Thanks. --Lorenzo Longo (talk) 10:18, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 10 April 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: page moved. wbm1058 (talk) 17:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

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Web decoration → Stabilimentum – The title is ambiguous. See reasons in the talk. As "Stabilimentum is a redirect" i need a mover. Lorenzo Longo (talk) 21:52, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

• Support: Ngrams seems to suggest that Stabilimentum is the more common name. retain 'web decoration' as a redirect, of course. YorkshireExpat (talk) 17:59, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
• Agree. This seems uncontroversial to me, so I've made the move. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:59, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.