2012年7月30日 · What enables a spider to spread its web filaments between bushes four feet apart, or even across rivers?

2010年6月27日 · The way the spiders do this actually is that they sit on the end of one twig or something, and they stream out this very long but very light thread of silk which gets picked up on air currents and it floats away from the spider, and the spider is …

2012年9月13日 · Maybe you’ve seen spider webs strung high in the branches between two trees. How is the spider able to reach between this distance, which is often more than several feet? The answer begins with...

2012年8月6日 · explains how spider webs manage to cover long distances. Spiders start their webs with a single strong strand called a bridge thread . The loose end of the strand depends on either gravity or a breeze to make contact with branch or other object. If the strand makes contact and attaches to another object the spider will use it to start building ...

2014年9月30日 · The answer is, well, blowing in the wind: the spider climbs up to an exposed spot – like the top of a fence – works out where the breeze is coming from and feeds out an extremely fine thread. Like an angler, the spider then waits until it can feel some tension in the thread, showing that it’s caught on to something on the other side of the gap.

2007年10月14日 · So how do they get across these big gaps to make these webs? Answer Spiders produce a very light and floaty piece of silk from their spinneretts and just wave it out in the breeze. the wind will carry it away and if it actually sticks on to something a bit further away it can start building its web.

2025年1月6日 · Spiders are extraordinary arthropods known for their ability to create intricate webs. These structures, vital for their survival, are a marvel of biological engineering. Spiders are nature’s engineers, and their web construction serves multiple purposes—from catching prey to …

Spiders sit on one object and send out threads of silk which blow around in the wind, and eventually touch and stick to the other object. Then the spider uses these wind-borne threads as a frame upon which to build its web. I just read about how spiders construct webs between 2 distant points, last week in a great book called "The Way Life Works".

2015年12月3日 · Sometimes spiders eat their own webs when they are done with them, as a way to replenish the silk supply. Spider silk is made of connected protein chains that help make it strong, along with...

2021年9月1日 · Spiders begin a web by throwing multiple lines of their silk thread into the wind. As this thread becomes longer, the wind carries it to a nearby object. Once the first line is anchored, the spider can now go about building the frame of the web. Once it has completed the frame it begins to add footholds.