SPIDER AND THEIR WEBS
SPIDER AND THEIR WEBS
This page shows you some of the interested things you may see if you go spider watching . Remember a spider is not an insects. Spider in bushes can be caught like insects drag a strong bag through the plants and tip the contents out onto a white sheet .
If you want to study spiders closely have a jam jar ready to keep them in .Put them back where you found them afterwards . Look for spider webs in early morning when they are covered with frost or dew.
Sheet web
This is a sheet web made by a house spider . You will find them behind picture and in the corners of room
and sheds .The spider will be hiding in a silken tube at the corner of the sheet web.
Hammock webs are quite common in hedge and bushes . Above the web are lots of tangled scaffolding threads . As well as holding the web in the position , these threads act as trip wires . The spider is waiting upside down under the web. When it feels the vibrations of an insect which has fallen on to the web it will rush up and catch it .
CATCHING PREY WITHOUT A WEB
This spider has very good eye sight . IT stalks its insect prey and may jump several centimeters to capture it . Notice its large eyes . Crab spiders can run sideways like crabs .They lie in wait for prey often hiding in flowers to catch any insect that may come to collect nectar .
Spider lay eggs which they cover with a cocoon of threads . This hunting spider carries her cocoon with her.
This is the orb web of Garden spider . You will find it hard to see unless it is covered with dew or frost . Flying insects which bump into it get caught in the sticky threads . The spider waiting in the middle can feel the vibrations of nay trapped insect . it will rush out and paralyses the prey with its poison fangs and then take the insect back to the center of the web to eat.
Some spiders spin a protective tent over the cocoon . The spiders hatch inside this nursery tent while the mother stands guard.When the young spider are ready to live on their own, she tears open the web to let them free.
Some spider that do not have nursery webs carry the young on their back until they can fend for themselves .
Diving bell web
Look in ponds for the water spider . To study it properly aquarium for a while .
Its home is an underwater web attached to water weed. It is rounded and filled with air like diving bell. The spider fill its by bringing down bubbles of air with its hind legs. It lives inside the bubbles swimming out to catch any passing water insect .
This is the orb web of Garden spider . You will find it hard to see unless it is covered with dew or frost. Flying insect which bump into it get caught in the sticky threads. The spider waiting in the middle can feel the vibration of any taped insect . It will rush out and paralyses the prey with its poison fangs and then take the insect back to the center of the web to eat .
This page shows you some of the interested things you may see if you go spider watching . Remember a spider is not an insects. Spider in bushes can be caught like insects drag a strong bag through the plants and tip the contents out onto a white sheet .
If you want to study spiders closely have a jam jar ready to keep them in .Put them back where you found them afterwards . Look for spider webs in early morning when they are covered with frost or dew.
Sheet web
This is a sheet web made by a house spider . You will find them behind picture and in the corners of room
and sheds .The spider will be hiding in a silken tube at the corner of the sheet web.
Hammock webs are quite common in hedge and bushes . Above the web are lots of tangled scaffolding threads . As well as holding the web in the position , these threads act as trip wires . The spider is waiting upside down under the web. When it feels the vibrations of an insect which has fallen on to the web it will rush up and catch it .
CATCHING PREY WITHOUT A WEB
This spider has very good eye sight . IT stalks its insect prey and may jump several centimeters to capture it . Notice its large eyes . Crab spiders can run sideways like crabs .They lie in wait for prey often hiding in flowers to catch any insect that may come to collect nectar .
Spider lay eggs which they cover with a cocoon of threads . This hunting spider carries her cocoon with her.
This is the orb web of Garden spider . You will find it hard to see unless it is covered with dew or frost . Flying insects which bump into it get caught in the sticky threads . The spider waiting in the middle can feel the vibrations of nay trapped insect . it will rush out and paralyses the prey with its poison fangs and then take the insect back to the center of the web to eat.
Some spiders spin a protective tent over the cocoon . The spiders hatch inside this nursery tent while the mother stands guard.When the young spider are ready to live on their own, she tears open the web to let them free.
Some spider that do not have nursery webs carry the young on their back until they can fend for themselves .
Diving bell web
Look in ponds for the water spider . To study it properly aquarium for a while .
Its home is an underwater web attached to water weed. It is rounded and filled with air like diving bell. The spider fill its by bringing down bubbles of air with its hind legs. It lives inside the bubbles swimming out to catch any passing water insect .
This is the orb web of Garden spider . You will find it hard to see unless it is covered with dew or frost. Flying insect which bump into it get caught in the sticky threads. The spider waiting in the middle can feel the vibration of any taped insect . It will rush out and paralyses the prey with its poison fangs and then take the insect back to the center of the web to eat .
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