When we first started gardening in Camps Bay , and everything was new, I was delighted to see a yellow spider web, with this zigzag. I was working in the Engineering and Science Library at the University of Cape Town . Synchronicity brought me that week’s Nature magazine with a cover article about cutting edge research.
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Zigzag stabilimentum
The zigzag stitch is called a stabilimentum.