spider's webs

[Pat]

Does anybody know, how a spider spins it's web from one tree or bush to another in mid air without falling, it's a thing that always puzzles me. I often walk along the lane early in the morning and walk through them and I always think, how did they do that! Pat

[nightshade]

hello pat if you would like to see for yourself,get a baking tray put two lumps or plasticine fairly far apart insert a stick in each slightly inclined to the middle ,top up the tray with water and introduce a web spinning spider
the spider does not like water but needs to eat so it will spin a web before your very eyes!
incidently somewhere there is a web covering 60 acres spun by a tiny spider called halorates ksenius (size 5mm across )

[pxl8]

This page might help:

http://pages.unibas.ch/dib/nlu/staff...construct.html