Comments on: Spider Web Construction Movie – Orb Wheel

By: Kiah

Kiah — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:56:47 +0000

There was a spider in my car 5 minutes ago. I killed it, but nit looked just like this spider, The Orb Weaver. My sister found it and nearly got bitten. It just apperared and it may have bitten her, I’ll have to check now.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:51:52 +0000

what is this?

By: Joe Fagan

Joe Fagan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:50:38 +0000

You saw them working from outside in, probably for this reason. Some orb weavers build a ’scaffold’ working from the inside out, very quickly, widely spaced and non-sticky. They use this to help then get from one radial to the next when laying the sticky spirals, working from outside in. You caught them at the slower second phase. The sticky silk is slower to produce and trickier to lay – it also keeps their legs busier and so they can’t manage without the scaffolding. When a section of scaffold is no longer needed, the spider will eat it. So, creation or evolution? They both seem unbelievable. Did you see that a 110million year old fossil of an orb web was discovered fossilied in amber?

By: binky

binky — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:12:14 +0000

I, too, noticed a spider near my apt weaving from the outside in, completing the exterior circles before winding its way to the interior. I didn’t see the beginning of the process, but noticed that it has to balance between two radials while spinning the thread for the circular part. How does it get from radial to radial at the exterior of the circle? I’d like to see a video on this.

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:53:42 +0000

My spiders this year so far are ”Boris & Natasha” and they weave
their webs in a different order from the video above. They start on
the outside and work into the middle to finish. Can you tell me more about this process? Does it differ with species? I’m in Northern California, Bay area. What type of spider is it most likely? Gold
and orange to tan colors. Beautiful!

By: David Robinson

David Robinson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:51:58 +0000

I recently noticed a beautiful web, top line spun about three to four feet across–and then filled in in a triangle as shown in this animation. Beautiful! It begins to appear at or a little after sunset every evening on my back deck. It is gone in the morning. I just started to notice this one about four days ago.

By: Wew

Wew — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:38:35 +0000

This video is totally awesome need to make a spider video as well!