how spider makes web

Spiders produce silk from their spinneret glands located at the tip of their abdomen. Each gland produces a thread for a special purpose – for example a trailed safety line, sticky silk for trapping prey or fine silk for wrapping it. They  transform liquid silk inside its special glands into solid threads. The spider does this by physically pulling the spider silk through its spinnnerets – silk-secreting organs on its abdomen. Once the thread is started, the spider lifts its spinnerets into the breeze.  It’s the breeze that helps spider to spin a web.

First the spider makes a bridge line and fixes it to a branch. It is the most important thread as all the web hangs from it. The spider moves down creating a Y shape fixing a point at the bottom. Next, the spider makes the spokes of the web, when these are complete it makes the spiral, starting off in the center. The spider lies in at center to catch the prey.

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