Home & Garden Why do spider webs gather in certain places?

[Andre]

That would stuff up the whole food chain. We'd eventually be swamped by flies, seing as how spiders are the main predators for them. That'd be worse.

I'd rather more flies and I'm sure the food chain would adapt. It's managed to for plenty of other species becoming extinct.

 

[NSWCROW]

**** i hate spiders.

 

[Doctor Feel]

If I find a huntsman on my roof I always give it my hospitality and invite it to make itself at home. Those badass mother****ers keep the mosquitos at bay like chuck norris.

 

[Mancey]

I find they tend to gather in secret caves containing shiny golden monkey idols and such

 

[Saint KFC]

Walked in to my bedroom to go to sleep, what's hanging from a web in the middle of the room looking me straight in the face?

The answer: a medium sized black Spider.

I killed him.

There are always spiders present.

 

[Lunchlady Doris]

Out on a farm in QLD over Christmas, you have to be super careful at night when walking near trees.

These buggers, always present, as big as your hand hanging in between every 2nd tree.

I don't think they could really hurt you, but not pleasant. Holding a torch up attracts the bugs and sends them running around their web biting them all and wrapping them up, fun to watch.

 

[BarneyBent]

just on side mirrors, was driving along one day, and one of these popped out of my side mirror

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You just gave me a heart attack. Bitch****ercampaignerstomper!

I get spider webs on my right side mirror. ****ing freaks me out, I hate them, I hate them so much. Went through a drivethrough car wash the other day, obviously didn't get rid of the web (that shit is actually stronger than steel), but I'm hoping the water sloshing in and around might have removed the spider responsible.

 

[Mancey]

but I'm hoping the water sloshing in and around might have removed the spider responsible.

It won't. Nothing short of jetting water straight on them will remove one.

Get the mortein out, adjust the mirror so you have a big gap between the mirror and the surround, and give it a good spray behind the mirror.

Sucker will come out coughing and die pretty quick. Only way to get rid of them

 

[Smoooothy]

You just gave me a heart attack. Bitch****ercampaignerstomper!

I get spider webs on my right side mirror. ****ing freaks me out, I hate them, I hate them so much. Went through a drivethrough car wash the other day, obviously didn't get rid of the web (that shit is actually stronger than steel), but I'm hoping the water sloshing in and around might have removed the spider responsible.

hows this work for ya??

 

[Doctor Feel]

Workmate was outside our shopping centre eating his lunch when he felt something crawling on his arm. It was a big ass black spider, a duel ensued witch the spider won. vale sweet prince workmate.

There are always spiders present, even when eating lunch at a shopping centre.

 

[BarneyBent]

Workmate was outside our shopping centre eating his lunch when he felt something crawling on his arm. It was a big ass black spider, a duel ensued witch the spider won. vale sweet prince workmate.

There are always spiders present, even when eating lunch at a shopping centre.

Got that right. Spiders are witches. That is how spiders are always present, yet never seen unless about to attack.

 

[Smoooothy]

even in floods!!!!!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/floods/8196340/spiders-bugs-spook-flood-cameramen

 

[Schulzenfest]

My brother found a spiderweb in his bed a while ago. Apparently he refused to sleep in it for a week.

P.S. You're all little bitches, spiders aren't that bad.

 

[blues4flag]

even in floods!!!!!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/floods/8196340/spiders-bugs-spook-flood-cameramen

"The worst problem is these things that look like half-crustacean and half-weird-deep-sea insect — we didn't hang around when we saw them."

6 half-crustacean and half-weird-deep-sea insects.

 

[blues4flag]

My brother found a spiderweb in his bed a while ago. Apparently he refused to sleep in it for a week.

P.S. You're all little bitches, spiders aren't that bad.

Reminds me of the time a mosquito was camping out on the bottom of the top bunk of my bed. Would be sleeping at night and hear annoying buzzing noises every few minutes, but not see anything when I turned on the light. Thought I was going ****ing insane and had to sleep the night on the couch.

Same thing happened the next day. You wouldn't imagine how happy I was to see the bugger on the bed the day after. Pulled out the Mortein and drenched the bed, reveling in the insect's slow death, walking away with my sanity intact.

 

[The Passenger]

don't care either way for spiders. i don't annoy them, they don't annoy me. usually. i still don't like them on me if i'm not expecting it.

and i wouldn't be too impressed if i woke up with this thing on my wall

 

[hawkeyehogan]

They like dirty places for example dreadlocks.People have them usually have lice and spiders.The spiders usually like to camp their along side the lice and the funky smell.

 

[Quadzilla]

this will scare you all away ...

camel spider!

 

[BarneyBent]

this will scare you all away ...

camel spider!

Disgrace, not even real.*

*They do exist, but they're not spiders, they're solifugae.

 

[Lunchlady Doris]

Disgrace, not even real.*

*They do exist, but they're not spiders, they're solifugae.

And they're actually quite small.

 

[BarneyBent]

And they're actually quite small.

Yep, a Wikipedia search tells me they only tend to reach 7cm. The photogropher has probably used perspective (intentionally or otherwise) to make them look bigger as well. The photo looks as though they're part of the mid-ground, but if you look at the sleeve in the foreground, you can actually see that the solifugae are probably hanging from the hand that belongs to that sleeve, which is a lot closer to the camera, and so renders their actual size a lot smaller.

Even with that considered, they look bigger than the standard 7 cm, but not drastically so.

 

[The_Reaper]

You know what they say, about never being more than 6 feet away from a spider. At any time.

There's always a spider present.

Of course, they have 8 feet and we have 2.