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I have to be honest I didn't spot the caterpillar when I was looking for a web today, so that was a bonus when I clicked and zoomed! HWW
This web appeared more glorious in the morning after catching water. Its designer never intended for it to be so.
Spider webs have existed for at least 100 million years. Insects can get trapped in spider webs, providing nutrition to the spider; however, not all spiders build webs to catch prey, and some do not build webs at all. "Spider web" is typically used to refer to a web that is apparently still in use (i.e. clean), whereas "cobweb" refers to abandoned (i.e. dusty) webs.
When spiders moved from the water to the land in the Early Devonian period, they started making silk to protect their bodies and their eggs.Spiders gradually started using silk for hunting purposes, first as guide lines and signal lines, then as ground or bush webs, and eventually as the aerial webs that are familiar today.
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. Spiders use different gland types to produce different silks, and some spiders are capable of producing up to 8 different silks during their lifetime.
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With a few frosty mornings in the books by the time I shot this October image, the spider population in the Reeseville Marsh prepare for the upcoming Wisconsin winter. This is the first time I had seen such a massive display of webs and was thoroughly impressed.
Richwood, WI.
Autumn 2016