Are spiders webs and the cobwebs you’d see in old abandoned places different things? How are cobwebs formed?
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Cobwebs are just old spider webs that have been made in places where they won’t get broken or blown away and have collected dust on the sticky strands that makes them more visible.
Cobwebs are abandoned spiderwebs.
Spiders spend a lot of time maintaining their webs to keep them functional, it doesn’t take that long for a spider web to gather dust and loose it’s stickiness and function as a trap for the spider’s food.
“Spider web” is typically used to refer to a web that is apparently still in use (i.e. clean), whereas “cobweb” refers to abandoned (i.e. dusty) webs.
Did you know that COB is simply an archaic English word for a spider, sometimes still used to refer to an orb-weaver spider
[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob)
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