Saw this enormous spider web while walking along old 9W yesterday afternoon. It must be several feet across. I didn't see the spider. Then again the web looks pretty old so maybe the spider found a new home.
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YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: judy | 26 August 2005 at 08:27 AM
wow. careful, it's a gigantic spider that is luring humans like you.
Posted by: tien | 26 August 2005 at 09:55 AM
what kind of spider makes a web like this? can you find out?
Posted by: isabel | 26 August 2005 at 10:37 AM
I don't know what kind of spider it is. I wiggled the web a bit but it didn't take the bait, so to speak.
Posted by: Joe | 26 August 2005 at 03:43 PM
i looked around and found out that it is the web of a funnelweb spider! fancy that! there are more than 400 species of same in North America.
also, happened upon this:
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/millions_of_tiny_spiders.htm
it's not about funnelweb spiders, but it's interesting anyway.(the first story on the page)
Posted by: isabel | 27 August 2005 at 10:51 AM
Good sleuthing! I read that the funnelweb spider's web was once used to dress wounds!
Posted by: Joe | 29 August 2005 at 02:03 PM
wow, fascinating. they must be very, um, absorbent?
actually i think my grandmother used to put a bit of spiderweb on a cut.
did you happen to look at the page i told you about? just massive webs all over a field. but not funnelwebs :(
Posted by: isabel | 29 August 2005 at 06:50 PM
Yes, I did see the massive webs. I've been trying to put the image out of my mind ever since.
Posted by: Joe | 31 August 2005 at 09:29 AM
;)
Posted by: isabel | 31 August 2005 at 10:40 PM
Oh my, I won't be able to get that out of my head for a while.
Posted by: Taroka | 20 January 2007 at 12:11 AM