• Question: How dose a Spider produce a web?

    Asked by FootballFred03 to Andrew, Jade, Jessica, Kevin, Lynn on 17 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
    • Photo: Jess Wade

      Jess Wade answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Hi Fred,

      Have you ever tried drawing a web? They all begin with a single thread, which starts the rest of the web. A spider makes fibres of proteins which are silks to capture other animals and also make nests to sleep in. They climb up a tree and make their first brave thread, hoping that they have guessed what the wind is going to do. They then walk across that thread and release another thread below it. It then hooks on another thread, and hope it gets blown onto another branch of a tree to stick on. It keeps working across like this, hooking different threads on and forming different shapes like Vs or Ys. Eventually it has put out all of the strong supporting threads and can move around the middle to create its nest.

      J

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