Out a walk this morning and saw a web that could be 3ft square and the spider is the size of a penny. Do they jump?
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One of the primary ways is for the spider to release some thread into the air and let the wind carry it the distance. With a little spot of extra sticky on the end, it will go until it meets something. The sticky bit attaches, and the spider attaches it’s end to the thing it’s on.
From there, the spider can walk along that thread from one side to the other. It will attach a thread to some point along the first thread, then walk back to one side or the other with it’s butt held away from anything. When it gets there, it will walk up or down and stick the new thread inches away to create a triangle. From there, it’s a matter of making more threads across the space and tying them together.
Another way is for the spider to attach to a point on one object, then drop to the ground, hold it’s butt out to keep it from getting stuck on anything, walk across the ground to another object that it can climb up. More triangles. OR it could walk UP and across, but the concept is the same.
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