How do spiders spin webs horizontally?
At least three times a week I walk into a spider web coming outside my door. Horizontal spider webs. Is it that they are just so light that they can be carried by wind to make these horizontal webs?
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spiders spin webs in almost any direction you can imagine. If you have ever spent any time watching orb spiders make a web, you will realize how they do it. The best one I’ve ever seen was an orb web stretched between two tree limbs about twelve feet off the ground. If a spider puts a web in a place that is inconvenient for me, I usualy take a small stick, scoop him up and move him to a more out of the way place.
Yeah, sometimes the wind will move a web strand, or sometimes these are parachute strands, which are long webs with a tiny ‘parachute’ at the end that young spiders use to travel from place to place.
What’s cool about an orb web, is that the radius strands are not sticky, but the circular ‘orb’ strands are. The spider will make the radius first, then spend the remainder of its time going round and round to make the orb part. Spiders will stick to the sticky strands, and they usually walk on the non-sticky ones so as not to get trapped in their own web.
It is nature!!!!!! Why are there planets? Where did u just take a breath. Why am I typing an answer on here. It is natural
Spiders scare the carp out of me, but they are amazing! And their webs are like pieces of art. I don’t like ruining their masterpieces (and kind of flip out when I walk through a web or string) but know they can make another one in a cinch – because they’ll need a snack or lunch!
The most typical scenario is that they release a free floating, lightweight strand that floats through the air until it connects with something. They then anchor both ends and proceed with the structure. If I remember correctly, spider silk is stronger than steel of the same diameter. They’re amazing creatures. There’s a very nice description here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Info/Construction_of_a_web.html
@autumn43 just how carp do you eat that a spider can scare it out of you? =)
Their webs, while pretty and amazing, are simply a tool to get food. Many spiders devour an old web in order to recycle the material to make a new web the next day.
Once upon a time I didn’t have TV. I read on the front porch a lot. Every night for about three weeks I got to watch this one spider re-build his web, night after night. It was just cool. Then one night he was gone, and a much bigger, different kind of spider was building a web there. :(
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