everytime you hang out your smalls does it think its caught dinner?
2007-08-11 00:44:08 · 10 answers · asked by karen 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Ok guess I should have tried puuting this question in another section!
Most of the answers are definately not from Zoologists, I'll bet!
It was just a thought, and yes I checked the nape of my neck!
2007-08-11 01:25:03 · update #1
It's using youur line as an anchoring point, not as a part of the web. To the spider, it's a nice convenient starting point - like a branch without leaves. When you hang things on the line, the disturbannce you make is hugely greater than anything a prey item would make when colliding with the web and struggling, so the spider puts it down to environmental disturbance, and not worth investigating. If you want to have some 'fun' (matter of taste, of course), find a web where the spider hangs concealed nearby, and try to 'tickle' the spider out - use a tall grass stem or something like it and use the tip to disturb the web in a way that you think an entangled insect would. If you get good enough at this, you can draw the spider out of her shelter to see what's up.
2007-08-11 05:33:16 · answer #1 · answered by John R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiders detect items that land in the web. So, if you are throwing your laundry in a spider web, the spider will detect it. Spend some time watching a spider on it's web. You will notice that it does not react to the wind.
Spiders don't think. Only humans think. The spider in just reacting to stimuli.
2007-08-11 01:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES...if it's next to a bush or shrub,they will use the line as a starting point.
2007-08-14 08:17:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ants would give a bigger thrill when you put them back on!
ATrapdoor Spider wouldn't do you much good, either.
There is one called a *untsman but I won't go into that!
2007-08-11 01:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by Collie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If its not crawling on your laundry, its must be crawling around on you. It might bite the nape of your neck.
2007-08-11 00:52:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
xc no it doesn't, it can make a difference betwenn "natural shaking" (like from wind of just big animals touching the web) or real shaking and tremor from real caught prey.
2007-08-11 00:50:29 · answer #6 · answered by jhstha 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
g-strings make a good anchor.havent you heard them singing spiders from mars.
2007-08-14 03:22:02 · answer #7 · answered by country bumpkin [sheep nurse] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spiders know dead from alive, and know that their web and themselves could not catch anything so big
2007-08-14 01:10:28 · answer #8 · answered by zababz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oops!
2007-08-11 01:02:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the smalls are not washed...............maybe.
2007-08-11 00:50:12 · answer #10 · answered by veg_rose 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋