The Kiss of the Spider / El Beso de la Araña

Carlos Fresneda and I recently traveled to UC Riverside to photograph Cheryl Hayashi, an expert in the genetic structure of spider silk (See her website here). The story was published in El Mundo’s new science/nature section, named Eureka. We played with a pink tarantula (Grammostola Rosea) and talked about the amazing characteristics of spider silk, [...]