When cleaning the BBQ last night, some industrious little spider had managed to get build a web in a gap some 2 meters wide between the BBQ and the tree and I thought how did he actually manage to bridge the gap to begin with?
Do they jump like some tiny eight-legged athlete, paying out rope as they fly through the air? Do they run down across the ground and then back up again? Do they perch on point A and fire a line across the gap line some little butt sniper and then build the rest off of that?
I am perplexed.
Edit: please forgive the illiterate title, insomnia’s kicking my ass at the moment.
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Different species of spiders use different methods.
Some jump across gaps, some make little web parachutes and float across on the wind, some throw little web grappling hooks, and some, just to be boring, just carry the web with them and walk around and up the other side, then reel in the slack.
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