Posted: 9/8/2013 2:58:59 PM EDT
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How the hell does a spider get a line of silk from a tree to my Jeep about 10 ft away? Every morning I walk into this spider web string that pretty much goes straight across parallel to the ground about 5 ft off the ground. |
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I don't know, up at camp back in mid August there was one stringing his web from the side trunk of one tree, to the top of another, down to the leaves on the ground. Done it for 3 nights, How I don't know, but it was a lot of work. These were trees 10-12 feet apart.
ETA: this was a new web every night. |
| They can spin different grades of silk. Some strands are "anchor lines" and others are simply the sticky parts that catch stuff. More than likely the spider just used an anchor line and walked it from the tree to your jeep then anchored it in place. Once the frame of the web is built then they go about weaving in the sticky stuff to actually trap bugs. Watched one build a web once. I haven't seen any adult spiders use the "balloon technique" to get from one place to another, though I have seen newly hatched young do it. |
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They can spin different grades of silk. Some strands are "anchor lines" and others are simply the sticky parts that catch stuff. More than likely the spider just used an anchor line and walked it from the tree to your jeep then anchored it in place. Once the frame of the web is built then they go about weaving in the sticky stuff to actually trap bugs. Watched one build a web once. I haven't seen any adult spiders use the "balloon technique" to get from one place to another, though I have seen newly hatched young do it. They can do both (walk it or fly it); I used to watch them a lot when I was a boy and have seen them do all sorts of genius shit. |
