October 2, 2010 at 5:28 am
#704344
cjboffoli
Participant
These little guys have been fascinating. Today I had to cut one of the lower support “wires” to a large web as it was blocking the path into my garden. I snipped it with my pruning shears and watched as the spider sprung into action. The web sort of collapsed in but the spider just remained in the center, gathering up all of the silk until it formed a ball. Then it climbed up one of the wires above and started spinning its way down again. I checked on it a few hours later and it looked as though the web was partially re-built and stable again. What a remarkable process.