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Analysis of material properties indicates that the tensile strength and extensibility of the silks employed by each species are identical over the entire size range of the species. Analysis of the breaking forces for individual draglines, however, indicates that the draglines scale allometrically with the spider's body mass. For Araneus, breaking force (N) scales with body mass (kg) as Fmax=11.2M0.786, and the static safety factor(SBW=Fmax\/Mg) scales as SBW=1.14M\u20130.214. For Salticus, Fmax=0.363M0.66 and SBW=0.037M\u20130.34. Thus, static safety factors decrease as these spiders grow, with values falling to 4\u20136 for adult Araneus and to 1\u20132 for adult Salticus. Analysis of these results suggests that the safety lines produced by these two species are not able to absorb the impact energy of most falls with a fixed length of pre-existing silk, except in the smallest of the Araneus spiders. 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