Garden Spider Web
Garden Spider Web Illustration
All 120 garden spider species spin webs that follow specific, orb patterns. Garden spider webs have features that are not seen in the webs of other spiders. These webs are generally constructed in open areas, allowing for easy capture of flying insects. As such, they are commonly visible to humans. Many people find these webs near their home after leaving the porch light on at night.
Round-bellied garden spiders spin their webs using silk from their spinnerets. They have two types of spinneret glands that produce different silk for different purposes: sticky silk is used in the web's spiraling lines, while non-sticky silk is used to produce the web's radial structure.
Garden Spider's Intricate Web
The support lines of the web are first attached to surfaces such as branches, plant stalks or walls. This provides the web with a solid base. Following completion, garden spiders hang upside down from the center of their webs to wait for prey.
Garden spider webs are incredibly strong. In addition to capturing and supporting prey, they are also used to house egg sacs, each of which may contain up to 100 eggs. In terms of relative tension, it requires more strength to break a strand of a garden spider's web than it does to break steel.
What is the Habitat of the Garden Spider
Black and Yellow Garden Spider