2006-09-23 01:54:51 · 12 answers · asked by jennifer f 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Spiders have a special organ called a spinnerette. It contains about eight different tubes that manufacture various types of spider silk. Some are like rope, others have daubs of glue a set distance apart along the line. The spider has conscious control of these, and can spin exactly the kind of silk it needs at the moment.
2006-09-23 02:22:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A popular misconception that spiders make their own webs. In fact the fairies often do most of the work and rather skilled they are. There is an annual Web Master competition held and I have to say it is rather an impressive event. Not a spider to be seen though.
2006-09-23 02:35:30 · answer #2 · answered by Frufrubella (fairy princess) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The spider secretes the strands out of their body, one string at a time in a pattern (out of their legs, stomachs? not sure where). The web is sticky that's why it will stick to the wall & also why insects will get stuck in it. Spiders are creepy! It's kind of giving me the willies writing about them! The webs can be quite beautiful though when you find one in the forest with little raindrops or bits of dew glistening in the sunlight...when I find one in the house though, I scream!
2006-09-23 02:05:22 · answer #3 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about spider webs or cobwebs? Cobweds are dust particles and grease that form sticky webs on walls.
2006-09-23 02:04:02 · answer #4 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
funny was having a very similar conversation this morning, gonna post my own question more on the subject of prgnant females.
good link on wikipedia, tres interessant
Oh yeah and isn't a cobweb the same except that we usually use this phrase after the spider is no longer using the web.
2006-09-23 02:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most spiders have dense tufts of great hairs between the paired claws at the hints of their legs. These tufts, often called scopulae, encompass bristles whose ends are split into as many as 1,000 branches, and enable spiders with scopulae to walk up vertical glass and the other way up on ceilings. It has been instructed that scopulae get their grip from contact with incredibly thin layers of water on surfaces. Abdomen bears appendages that have been modified into spinnerets that extrude sticky thread, silk, from up to six forms of silk glands within their abdomen.
2016-08-09 15:01:14 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spiders feed on flying insects and to catch them they exude a sticky
membrane and i believe they are formed by the spider dropping down supported by this thin sticky film until they land on a solid surface and i have seen them blown by the wind they join these sticky filaments until it it is close enough to trap their prey.
these webs are not easily seen untill the stickyness traps dust
2006-09-23 02:18:14 · answer #7 · answered by clifford b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maximum spiders have dense tufts of positive hairs between the paired claws on the information of their legs. those tufts, primary as scopulae, contain bristles whose ends are split into as many as a million,000 branches, and enable spiders with scopulae to stroll up vertical glass and the different way up on ceilings. that is been mentioned that scopulae get their grip from touch with somewhat skinny layers of water on surfaces. abdomen bears appendages that have been changed into spinnerets that extrude sticky thread, silk, from as much as six varieties of silk glands interior their abdomen.
2016-10-01 06:51:59 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a quite in depth TV program about this but I cant remember anything they said now....
Try this link http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Info/Construction_of_a_web.html
2006-09-23 02:03:35 · answer #9 · answered by Nyla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll find the answer on the web !!!
2006-09-23 02:06:36 · answer #10 · answered by minitheminx65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋