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An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:16 pm
by Marie5656
The other evening when I had Trixie out for a romp in her room, it was still light outside, so I was sitting looking out the window. Anyway, I saw a slight movement by the sattelite dish, which is mounted on the rail of the small deck we have outside the house.
I looked closer, and saw a tiny spider, moving back and forth, up and down. I then realized it was weaving a web. It was very methodical movements..up and down several times, between the edge of the web and the center of it..in various directions. Then after a few minutes, it was ever increasing circles, starting in the center. Then back to the lines of web. Quite fascinating.
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:52 pm
by cherandbuster
Marie
I've seen a spider web being constructed by an industrius spider, too
Isn't it fascinating?
Nature in action :-6
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:56 pm
by Rapunzel
Did you know spiders produce two kinds of silk for their webs? One kind is used to make web lines, like spokes on a bike wheel, and the other kind makes a concentric circle like a groove on a record, spinning outwards from the centre. One of these threads is very sticky and the other is not. That is why a fly or insect can fly into the web and get caught on its stickiness, yet the spider never gets caught in its own web because it only ever stands on the non-sticky strands!
And that is today's bit of useless trivia!
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:26 pm
by weinbeck
Rapunzel wrote: Did you know spiders produce two kinds of silk for their webs? One kind is used to make web lines, like spokes on a bike wheel, and the other kind makes a concentric circle like a groove on a record, spinning outwards from the centre. One of these threads is very sticky and the other is not. That is why a fly or insect can fly into the web and get caught on its stickiness, yet the spider never gets caught in its own web because it only ever stands on the non-sticky strands!
And that is today's bit of useless trivia!
That's nothing, girl. The spider has eight holes in it's back through which it breathes, but although you see spiders in the most undesirable of places like sewers and toilets, they themselves are the only creatures in the world that are TOTALLY GERM FREE. Beat that for trivia!
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:15 pm
by Marie5656
It seems I knew about the stickyness..but did not know they produced different types of threads.
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:44 pm
by CARLA
Interesting info on Spiders.. :-3 Still hate them..:p
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:18 am
by Lulu2
Oh, Carla! Don't hate them...LOVE them! Without spiders we'd have more flies! And flies spread diseases, while spiders don't! I'll risk a spider bite and encourage them in my garden!
Do you know how they eat? They can't chew...so, they inject special enzymes into their meal, dissolve it into a sort of "slurpee" and then suck out the juice! Clever system!
(I probably just gave Carla the CREEPS!) :wah:
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:02 am
by CARLA
That you did, I always figured Spiders to be creatures from another planet now I know.. :-3
[QUOTE](I probably just gave Carla the CREEPS!) [/QUOTE]
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:11 am
by Lulu2
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:23 am
by CARLA
Yikes now I'm even more frieghtened. We have the recluse and the widow here plus really big trantulla's (sp). One walked across my face as kid when I was sleeping I still have nightmares about it. :-3
We were caving in New Zewland and they have these things called "Wetta's not sure I spelled it right but they were every where on the walls floor you name it. I ran screaming out of the cave and everyone followed right behind me screaming ..:wah: :wah: not a pretty sight..
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:32 am
by Lulu2
Oh...well, I can understand THAT! I saw something similar in a cave in Borneo...the floor was covered with bat guano and it was teeming with roaches!
You probably don't want to come to the zoo and hold the Pink-toed tarantula??? She's pretty!
http://www.centralpets.com/animals/inse ... r2566.html
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:41 am
by CARLA
No way in HELL I could do that it would be so tramatic they would have to call 911
[QUOTE]You probably don't want to come to the zoo and hold the Pink-toed tarantula??? She's pretty[/QUOTE]!
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:53 am
by Lulu2
How are you with snakes?
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:05 am
by Marie5656
I actually like seeing cool things. I would like to visit African Lion Safari up in Canada. I think it is in Ontario.
An interesting sight outside the window
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:58 pm
by Lulu2
At Halloween, the zoo features "Creepy Critters," with opportunities to look up close and do some touching. I was holding an African millipede once ...
http://www.sfzoo.org/cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=43...when, much to the delight of the children watching me, its back end opened up like a camera lens and it SHAT on me!
Ah, nature! :wah: