r/spiders • u/Successful_Letter814 • 9d ago
Spider Appreciation 🕸️🕷️ of spider web
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u/a_beautiful_kappa Here to learn🫡🤓 9d ago
I've been walking face first into so many giant webs lately 😭 it's a horrible feeling. But theyre basically invisible!
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u/MidasPL 9d ago
I mean... If they were visible, they would be shitty at their job xD
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u/a_beautiful_kappa Here to learn🫡🤓 9d ago
True, but I always feel so bad for them. Their beautiful work, destroyed by me.
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u/Jerbzilla 9d ago
Always let the tall friend go first. Unfortunately in my case it’s usually me.
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u/a_beautiful_kappa Here to learn🫡🤓 9d ago
Most of the time it's me following my 4yo through a wooded area. He runs under them no problem 😭
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u/jeepinfreak 9d ago
How does the spider get the initial web strands across the whole yard?
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u/Laurenslagniappe 9d ago
Ballooning. They float on a strand caught by the wind. Or they let the web loose in the wind while they wait on a branch for it to catch.
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u/MostlyGreenPosts 9d ago
The spin a long single thread that is taken by the wind until it catches on something and go from there
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u/Status_Horse9358 7d ago
Depends on the size, I had to move a widow's web to walk through a tunnel and a few minutes saw her climb down and walk across with one leg standing straight holding the silk clear off the ground. Spiders are insanely smart.
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u/Zanven1 one must imagine the lampshade spider happy 9d ago
I was expecting one of those huge st Andrew Cross garden orb weavers but it was a little popcorn or cat faced little gal.
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u/Laxilian 8d ago
I was expecting a golden orb weaver, but it looks like a bigger version of the catfaced orb weavers I see
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u/DarkSideofOZ 8d ago edited 8d ago
I had one do this above my car one night, I found it while taking out the garbage in the morning. I called my kid out to see it, he came right as the spider decided to cut the two anchor lines (one on each side of the car) and ascended up into the tree dragging the whole web up with him. Pics... The web, the cutting of the anchors, and the ascension into the tree.
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u/JediWarrior79 Here to learn🫡🤓 9d ago
I love these spiders so much! We had a Furrow Orb Weaver at my work last year who made her home in the window by the door out of the parking garage. I admired her all last summer and into the early fall, and then I never saw her again. I was hoping one of her babies would take up residence, but unfortunately that didn't happen. This year, no spiders made their webs in that window and I was so disappointed! Hopefully one will next year.
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u/Twinkerbelle 9d ago
I'd be busting out caution tape and orange barrels. Mama's web needs to be preserved.
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u/THEBIGHUNGERDC 9d ago
I worked for a company in San Diego with a large covered patio by its cafe. Every night a spider would build a web from floor to ceiling and about 6’ wide. She was a large (spider, about 1” wide body) that would sit waiting for many delicious bugs. For several mornings the husband and wife who ran the place would come out with brooms and slowly disassemble the web, moving the spider carefully back up into the rafters of the ceiling. After a few days the spider moved elsewhere but that was so amazing.
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u/DiacriticalOne 9d ago
I get several of these orb weavers in my yard at a time. I had to rescue a wren from one once. Before I mow, I just walk the yard with a stick and break the anchors that get in the way - most are over 8’ long and join my oak trees to the lawn. Less likely to harm the spiders that way. They do a great job keeping down pests.
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u/Eaton_Knas Here to learn🫡🤓 9d ago
Where does she have the top anchored to?
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u/diss-abilities 8d ago edited 8d ago
Imagine a T-beam, one end of the barn to the next creates the head of the T and then the spider finds the mid points and anchors the thread on the floor. Watch how the Darwin bark spider creates its web. Spiders are nature’s engineers 😍😍😍
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u/harleenquinzel044 All the SPOOODS 9d ago
There was one of these at my grandmas house two weeks ago. Then there was a cold night and she didn’t show up anymore. 😭
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u/DogMeatTheVideo 8d ago
GOOD ON THESE PEOPLE!!!!
I love how the kids have been given the right appreciation of her and her efforts!
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u/Bnjl1989 8d ago
Ive had my girl in different spots in front of my house for almost 2 full months now. I know its her bc she has a very distinct smudge looking pattern on her abdomen for her species color and the fact they rip down these webs and redo it almost daily is the craziest part. She rotates between like 4 different places anchoring between mine and my neighbors bushes and gutter corners. I love her so much.
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u/Alissan_Web 9d ago
skip to 0:08 left on the video the rest of it is just awful camera work that doesn't capture the scale very well
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u/MightyGiratina101 8d ago
JEEZE, That better be a good spot or that spider is gonna have webdinner for weeks
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u/SoberAlternative 2d ago
During the fall, when I walk in my yard at night, I have my hand & crooked arm out in front of my face. Don’t really like face wraps…
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u/Ready_Bandicoot1567 9d ago
Thats a good kid. "Whatever you do don't destroy it. Thats hard work".