adhere OR attach
21. Adhering to multiple substrates: blackberry
"One of the most mobile of plants…is the blackberry. An individual, once established, immediately starts to seek new territory for itself. It puts out exploratory stems…They begin to advance directly and purposefully…Each stem...
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Email22. Jellyfish nematocysts adhere.
“Nematocysts are diverse in structure and interactions with target tissues (Mariscal, 1974; Williamson et al., 1996). The nematocyst itself consists of an intracellular capsule containing a tightly coiled and folded tubule. Upon receipt of appro...
23. The Virginia creeper can scale cliffs, walls and tree trunks using tiny circular pads that form at the end of its tendrils and adhere to all kinds of surfaces.
"The tips of the tendrils of the Virginia creeper are expanded into small circular pads or suckers that adhere firmly to many kinds of surfaces." (Dawson and Lucas, 2005)
24. Hooks attach in water currents: caddisfly
"The posterior prolegs of the caddis Rhyacophila, the megalopteran Corydalus, and lotic chironomid midges, in addition to blackfly larvae, have hooks or hooklets that likewise help to stop larvae from being swept away when they move over exposed s...
25. Suction used to attach to prey: lamprey
"The lamprey uses a sucker-like jawless mouth to cling to the trout, and has a vicious abrasive tongue with which to gorge a hole in its host's body. There it laps up the body fluids oozing from the wound." (Foy and Oxford Scientific Films 1982:50)
26. Running on waxy leaves: Arboreal ants
"Even less clear is the basis of 'wax-running,' by which some ants get around on the slippery epicuticular wax of plants. Federle, Rohrseitz, and Hölldobler (2000) measured attachment forces by making ants do their thing under varying amounts...
27. Curli allow Salmonella to adhere to Teflon and stainless steel.
“Structurally and biochemically, curli belong to a growing class of fibers known as amyloids…Biofilm formation is a multi-step developmental process that includes at least five distinguishable steps: (a) reversible attachment, (b) irreversible...
28. Eggs stick to waxy surface: asparagus beetle
"Plant surfaces covered with crystalline epicuticular waxes are known to be anti-adhesive, hardly wettable and preventing insect attachment. But there are insects that are capable of gluing their eggs to these surfaces by...
29. Parasite attaches underwater: copepod
"The results emphasise the importance of the physical nature of the pad's surface. This is inferred from the compliance of the cuticle and subsurface structure, and the presence of cuticular ridging. The pads probably prevent pandarids from being ...
30. Glue fibers form underwater: caddisfly
"Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead [of] on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it...
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