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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Mystery for you people
As far as google and I know, spiders cannot shoot web filaments.
And yet, this occurred this morning chez moi:
Can any of my nine loyal readers explain?
6 comments:
Debs
said...
I think it's "bridging" - spiders create a long bit of web and let it blow in (even a very slight) breeze until it attaches somewhere. They construct their webs under this first line.
See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/science/how-do-spiders-spin-their-webs-across-great-distances.html?_r=0
6 comments:
I think it's "bridging" - spiders create a long bit of web and let it blow in (even a very slight) breeze until it attaches somewhere. They construct their webs under this first line.
See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/science/how-do-spiders-spin-their-webs-across-great-distances.html?_r=0
I would get rid of it because I don't want it to lay spider eggs.
Cool link, Debs. I wonder what sort of breeze it got in my cabin though!
You probably created a mini breeze just by walking by :-)
@Debs, good point. The observer affects the observed. :)
Spiders lay so many eggs that you won't believe. I saw it in front of Mhs entrance.
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