Types of webs
Orb Web Structure: Foundation,middle,core spiral circular. The orb web is found in open forests and the woodlands on trees and spread out through the woodlands and forests.
Function:To trap and keep prey in web for the spider to eat is also help to find a mate.makes vibrations of a certain string when a bug gets in it. How spiders use it:They use it to trap a insect of bug in a sticky web. They take the insect and weave it in a ball to it can preserve it and keep it for later to eat,or just to make sure the insect or bug never leaves. When it is in the web ball,the spider comes over and sucks all the insides out of the sider. Also It helps them run into mates finding vibrations when another spider stumbles upon the web.spiders hide or sit right in the center and waits for a bug to get stuck and then a vibration is made on one string and the spider goes and eats. listens for mates/bugs by plucking and vibration |
Nursery WebStructure:This web is a web that is a protective sack web under the female and the eggs of the spiders are in there.
Function:This web is not used to catch bugs at all It is only used for the keeping of the eggs. They are usually guarded by the mother of the family until they hatch and they leave. The web is left empty. How spiders use it:The nursery web spider carries her egg-sac, or cocoon, under her body until near hatching. She then spins a protective web in which her hatchlings live until their first moult. Before the eggs hatch, the female attaches the sac to a plant and then builds a web around it. When the eggs inside are hatching, the mother spider opens the cocoon and releases the hatch lings then stands guard nearby. The hatch lings remain in the web until their first moult. The nursery web spider forage for their food and build webs only for protecting their young. |
Funnel webStructure:Inner web,outer web,foundation. This web is a web that is built in the ground and goes in like a funnel. The silk of the is strong and is used mainly for a home and there are trip lines around it.
Function:this web is used for a home,hiding,and attacking. The web is not a bug catching web but an attacking web and its used for a shelter too. How spiders use it:The funnel web is called a funnel web because of the way the web is spun. It looks like a normal web but in the middle of the web there is a funnel in the ground which you will find the habiting spider. The spider sits in the tunnel and waits for the feeling of vibrations which is something touching the web. When it find they pry on the web is felt and stuck, the spider takes the bug and spins it up in web like any other spider. They then bring it into their funnel or hole and preserve the insect/bug...or eat it right away for a nice meal. |
Sheet webStructure:Inner web,outer web,foundation.This web is a web that is built in the ground and goes in.The silk of the is strong and is used mainly for a home and there are trip lines around it.
Function: This web is used for a home and attacking its is a web that is sticky and can be used for the community. How spiders use it:A sheet web is called a sheet web because of how thin and long it is. This is because they are made to capture prey over a wide area. Instead of having a normal web that is weaved with thick sticky webs. The spiders who make this web make a thinner web that covers a larger amount of space. If you go to some countries these sheet webs can cover whole trees and miles of land. With all this space every spider living their lives in harmony. except when they eat each other. |
CobwebsStructure:The Tangled webbed spider has poor eyesight.When it lets out the silk, it places the strands of silk in random directions and has a silky substance. Cobwebs are found around homes and buildings.
Function:A web with a small surface area, usually very dense, and strategically placed above ground, on plants or trees. This creates a more defensive and safe way for habbitting spiders to hunt. It also serves as a great home. How spiders use it:Tangled webbed weavers make the most simple webs than others spiders do. Most spiders that use these webs often do not have the normal hunting style than your traditional spider. They prefer for their web to be high up above the ground giving them a strategic advantage from other spiders. They use tangled, messy webs with no pattern to span across an area of choosing. This area is usually small, but there's a catch. The web is most often extremely dense. If a insect of bug happens to crawl/fly their way into this web. They have a very small percentage of leaving. This creates a more defensive way of hunting and a more safe way for the spider to get food. To summarize it, a kind of spider who would use this web would be a defensive one |
Ways of Identifying Spiders.
There are many spiders in the world and it seems like the only way to name them all is by using those fancy scientific names that no one but scientists can memorize let alone actually say. So how do you know what spider you will see? How do you know what that spider in the corner of your house is? Well there's 3 ways of telling. The first one is shape. If you look at a spider it could have long legs small body, or how about huge body smell legs. Does it have A neck? how big are its fangs and eyes? this is all one key way of knowing what spider you are looking at. By just looking at a spider you can tell what it is by how it looks just like how you would with anything else in your life. This is the easiest way of the three to identify spiders. What if two spiders look the same? Well, then the next way of identifying a spider comes in. The second one if the size of the spider. For example look at the tarantula. Their is a small brown one and a massive brown one. One of the tarantula’s are completely different from the other. This means that the size of the spider and how big certain parts of the spider are are main features you should be looking at. This also goes along with shape of the spider. Finally the color of the spider should definitely explain the spider and what it is. Colors and designs completely give away what the spider is. Look at the black widow for example. It looks like a black spider, except for one thing. The symbol on its back. The spiders always have some sort of defining feature that made them all different. Its just the matter of finding them.