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June 16, 2006 at 12:19 pm #1038216
….a spider make its web?
My friend was telling me that when she got up this morning there as a web at chest height going from one side of her kitchen to the other.
How does the spider get to and from each side of the kitchen? Does it jump? Like Spiderman? Or does it crawl along the floor then up the opposite wall? And if it does that, why doesn’t the web catch on the floor?
June 16, 2006 at 12:24 pm #1079304Its all about the wind…..
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Info/Construction_of_a_web.html
June 16, 2006 at 12:27 pm #1079298Wow, they’re mental little things aren’t they! Thanx for the link.
“The spider removes the silk in the morning by eating it, only leaving the first bridge line. After a daytime rest the spider constructs a new web in the evening. If the catch was low and the web is not heavily damaged the web may stay during the day and be reused after minor repairing. “
June 16, 2006 at 12:29 pm #1079293I think they let loose a very thin thread that gets carried on a breeze and hopefuly sticks to another point. They then reinforce that thread. I think.
Which makes you think, do they pick certain locations becuase of the draft and the direction of the breeze?
June 16, 2006 at 12:30 pm #1079294…oh.. elretardo got there before me 🙂
June 16, 2006 at 12:30 pm #1079300I’d rather not think about it..
I’m not too bad with Spiders tbh but i hate it when u walk into their webs you can feel it for ages after euch…
June 16, 2006 at 12:34 pm #1079292Acidfairy wrote:I’d rather not think about it..I’m not too bad with Spiders tbh but i hate it when u walk into their webs you can feel it for ages after euch…
Try doing that in australia…
June 16, 2006 at 12:35 pm #1079301If i had i wouldn’t be here to tell the tale that i do know..
Got a lot of mates in Oz and whenever they come visit they always check round the toilet before using it.. used to ask why till they told me bout what they call the dunny spider…. no thanks
June 16, 2006 at 12:43 pm #1079302http://www.reptilepark.com.au/animals.asp?catID=17
Check out some of these for aussie spiders… yuck
June 16, 2006 at 12:45 pm #1079295Acidfairy wrote:If i had i wouldn’t be here to tell the tale that i do know..Got a lot of mates in Oz and whenever they come visit they always check round the toilet before using it.. used to ask why till they told me bout what they call the dunny spider…. no thanks
A friend of mine who lives in Australia had a not so pleasant experience once.
As with the toilet you are supposed to check your shoes too. As you can imagine this gets a bit tiresome, especially if you are in a rush. She slipped her shoes on without checking and thought her sock was bunched up. It wasn’t until a few minutes later that she took her shoe off and out flopped a tarntula type spider.
Luckily she had incapacitated it!
June 16, 2006 at 12:49 pm #1079303We used to get some mad ones out in Saudi called camel spiders they were huge
June 16, 2006 at 12:55 pm #1079296Acidfairy wrote:We used to get some mad ones out in Saudi called camel spiders they were hugehttp://www.arabianwildlife.com/nature/insect/ins09.html
Hideous!!!!
I hate spiders. Despite finding them quite fascinating at the same time.
June 26, 2006 at 6:07 pm #1079299Dr Bunsen wrote:Try doing that in australia…we’re lucky we only have these dinky little things in this country
i was out hiking along a river gorge in Chile and saw what looked like a piece of kite string running accross the river… it was only when i saw a few chunky, hairy dismembered legs, about the size of a large toad’s leg that I realised i had just passed a spider web… i guess from the legs strewn about, the resident had had a fight with a bird of prey or similar
saw a live one close up a couple hours later as i climbed up onto a ledge and it was sitting close to my face:yakk:
some locals told me later that they were pretty harmless, unless you were a baby chicken… they don’t usualy bite humans, but if you piss them off they jump up about a metre or so and ‘fire’ hairs from all over their body at you, which causes quite a bit of discomfort
:weee:
June 26, 2006 at 6:32 pm #1079297globalloon wrote:they don’t usualy bite humans, but if you piss them off they jump up about a metre or so and ‘fire’ hairs from all over their body at you, which causes quite a bit of discomfort:weee:
Hardcore!!! :crazy: :weee:
June 26, 2006 at 7:27 pm #1079305I got woke up last night by a tickling feeling on my face, All of sudden my sleepy brain realised it was something crawling on my face. Jumped up and there was a large hairy spider on my pillow. Proper freaked out, flung my pillow accross the room and havn t seen the spider since. Just glad we don’t get poisonous spiders here, that would be to much.
June 26, 2006 at 8:11 pm #1079306biggest one i saw was on someone’s back [just before i flicked it off] and was the size of a large dinner plate
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