https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd Please answer questions #1-6 for your spider and spider web investigation lab en-us 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC 2024-12-14 23:04:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f577.png mking3816 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397297 2. What kinds of behaviors did you observe spiders have that might help it survive in their habitat? Include a description of the structure and a picture of one of your drawings/models.]]> 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397297 mking3816 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397307 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397307 mking3816 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397309 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397309 mking3816 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397318 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397318 mking3816 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397322 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397322 mking3816 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397324 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397324 mking3816 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397326 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397326 mking3816 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397333 2020-11-12 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917397333 lgroening2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917461185 Luca Groening spider reserch lab ]]> 2020-11-12 17:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917461185 lgroening2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917484110 The web I saw, like i described was branching between my neighbors house, and a tree, it seemed to be a bit damaged from the raind in the past few days ]]> 2020-11-12 17:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917484110 lgroening2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917528589 My spider is undboutably an orb web spider. The circle shaped web is a dead giveaway, it also explains why it wasnt moving, it was likely waiting for a prey spicies to get caught in its web, from what I observed it hasent caught anything. This explains why it was alone aswell, as orb spiders, kill and eat eachother, so if there where another it would most likely die.]]> 2020-11-12 17:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917528589 lgroening2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917546781 I wonder, how many of the spiders living in my neighborhood are hidden as apposed to being in more common areas. It would make more sense if the spiders dident want to have their webs destroyed that they would put them in spots humans cant reach.]]> 2020-11-12 17:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917546781 lgroening2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917559937 My biggest takeaway has been learning how many spicies of spider dont make circular webs or even any webs at all, and that spiders that make circle webs have their own classification.]]> 2020-11-12 17:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917559937 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917588948 So the spiders I saw were the orb spiders and the cellar spiders. You could tell it was one of those because the prb spider had circular patterns while the cellar spider had kind of a geometric pattern happening with it being random. I guess the orb spider could spread out its webs further because of it usualy being outside while a cellar spider is uually in tight spaces so they can't have a consisten pattern going and so they have to create different shaped webs to maximise the size.]]> 2020-11-12 17:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917588948 vpadmanabham2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917593902 2020-11-12 17:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917593902 vpadmanabham2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917604850 I wonder how strong spider silk is and if it can be manufactured by humans to create something. I also wonder how spiders have evolved over the years such as more durable bodies to prevent from being stepped on.]]> 2020-11-12 17:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917604850 vpadmanabham2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917610009 My biggest takeaway  was how spiders can easily adapt to their surroundings and based on that, how they maximise the space they have to create webbing.]]> 2020-11-12 17:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917610009 edorrell2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917695459 This spider has been in the same spot on my tangerine tree for almost two months. It appeared to have 4 long legs, until I sprayed the web with some mist, and it opened up and started fixing it's web.(8 legs) It is a yellowish tan color, with black and white striped legs. It also has some noticeable lumps on its head when viewing it from the back. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917695459 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917710771 The web I saw was very lateral, it was stretched out and pretty low compared to other webs i've seen. This web also connected to a tree to which it became a cocoon of sorts. The structures I saw where trees and bushes, these where what the webs were attached too. This was the only web I saw, there were no spiders in view or burrowed that I could see. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917710771 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917712988 All the webs I could find were attached to patio furniture and the outside of our house. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917712988 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917716925 In the video I noticed that the spider was very precise when building its web except for the middle (which is fixed later). I noticed that the spider laid in wait instead of foraging and moving around which would help survivability because there is less of a chance of encountering predators.]]> 2020-11-12 18:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917716925 zkinnear2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917729198 I wonder how long a spider will live in one web for and how long it takes a spider to make a web on average. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917729198 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917735761 The webs I saw were from the video which was an orb spider web. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917735761 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917756403 I did not see any spiders today, but I did see a web, this web I believe looks similar to that of a cellar spider web. The way the web stretches long versus being a taller web. It also is quite messy along with being in a similar orientation as the cellar spiders web depicted in the chart above. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917756403 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917767164 The species was an orb spider in the video. Once the web was complete the spider sat still until prey made the mistake of flying into its web. Orb spiders are one of the lie and wait spiders which does not actively search for prey merely waits for it to come. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917767164 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917767438 I wonder if the reason I no longer see orb spiders at my home is becauses of the seasons, or because of human influence(aka HOA).]]> 2020-11-12 18:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917767438 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917772721 While watching the spider web, I was taking a liking to the complexity of the web. It is said that spider web is one of the strongest materials on earth, and I to me it's very cool how these predators hunt. I admired the spider, that I did not see, and their master patience. My biggest take away was though was probably how many different kinds of webs there are in this world, and that I am sure each web varies in strength. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917772721 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917792277 The spider webs were mostly in enclosed spaces rather then open areas. Some of them had more spread out webs then others. Certain sider webs were seemed to be thinner the other ones.  ]]> 2020-11-12 18:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917792277 edorrell2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917807708 I found three webs, but only one of them was inhabited. It was an orb web, with an intricate circular pattern. I also noticed that it had some thick webs anchoring the main circle to the tree. The other two that I found were very densely woven, but they had no pattern to them. They seemed to be all over the place with no real direction. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917807708 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917813974 Which spiders are the most effective? Is there a web design that's best? 
Answer: The best web is the Darwin's Bark Spider. Its web is 10x stronger than Kevlar (used for body armor and stops bullets) and its stronger than any other web. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917813974 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917831826 I now know that all spiders use different webs to catch prey, the also all have different methods such as waiting for prey to come to them, getting the prey on their own, and burrowing under the ground and taking prey that walks by. It is incredible that there is a spider silk which we break through easily that to scale is stronger than Kevlar. No spiders are the same and that means that each one uses a different tactic which is incredible. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917831826 edorrell2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917851902 The spider that I saw was definitely an orb weaving spider. The web made it obvious. It was perched in the center of it's web, towards the top of my tangerine tree. It appeared to only have four legs, until I sprayed mist on the web and it opened up to reveal all eight. Predators of this spider are some species of birds and wasps.]]> 2020-11-12 18:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917851902 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917869337 Although, I didn't see any spiders I did see quiet a lot of spider webs. Most of these spider webs seemed to come from orb, cobweb and cellar spiders. Orb web spiders use their webs for prey as they wait for them to arrive. Cobweb spiders set traps to catch insects that crawls in the ground. There were those more messy webs that seemed to me from cellar spiders which are known for that as they tend to move their webs to seem as they disappear. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917869337 edorrell2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917878837 Why do some spiders appear hairy?
After researching this question, I found out that the hairs on spiders are their version of ears. The are super sensitive, and a spider uses them to locate predictors or prey.]]> 2020-11-12 18:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917878837 edorrell2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917897908 My biggest takeaway is that spiders aren't as scary as they may seem. Personally, spiders are one of my biggest fears, and I always get the chills when I see one. I now know that most spiders are harmless, and should not be feared. In fact, they benefit humans in many ways, such as medicine and less bugs.]]> 2020-11-12 18:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917897908 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917901317 I wonder if how thick or thin a spiders web is, if it's only dependent on the spider and it's purpose or can it sometimes lead to their health?]]> 2020-11-12 18:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917901317 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917923314 My biggest takeaway has been to be able to identify these spiders and how they each serve their own purpose. It also made me more aware of how they serve their purposes in our ecosystems. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917923314 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917962554 I found the video fascinating how this garden orb spider built her web. It is so interesting how they are very smart creatures when creating their webs, they are very precise. She first creates the "outline" of her web to proceed into putting her sticky silk for the prey to come by. When their prey finally comes in she is very quick to move and capture it. ]]> 2020-11-12 18:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/917962554 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918262589 I observed a web in between some old buckets that still had a spider in it. The web seemed to be run down and looked to be a little weathered, maybe from the recent rain and wind. The spider didn't move all that much when I approached.]]> 2020-11-12 19:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918262589 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918280545 I only noticed one web and i didn't have any to compare it to. I did notice that this web didn't look like the average web because there didn't seem to be a pattern or any type of organization to it.]]> 2020-11-12 20:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918280545 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918296039 The web that looked most fimilair to the one I found was the cobweb spider. It has a irregular web pattern which I noted in the previous section. They also catch prey that are on the ground which is where my web was located. Thier webs are extremely sticky and tough to catch prey that go by it.]]> 2020-11-12 20:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918296039 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918310941 I wonder how weather effects how spiders build their webs?
When spiders are expecting worse weather before hand they will build larger and stronger webs to brace for the harsh weather.]]> 2020-11-12 20:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918310941 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918319981 My biggest takeaway is the adaptions each spider has depending on the prey they are after. For example the cobweb spider has adapted to make strong webs that reside near the floor to catch bigger prey, such as bugs or anything else that gets caught going past. While orb spiders make huge webs that are very light so the spider can feel the vibrations of prey stuck in the web. This fascinated me how the different web types helps spiders catch different tyoes of prey.]]> 2020-11-12 20:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/918319981 fritz2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921295535 The structures I observed from my investigation were that many of the webs I found were empty and I couldn’t find the spiders that created the webs but the structures that were nearby allowed some of the webs to be in better conditions than the others I found as one was inside of a shed with it being much larger than the others I found as well. I was unable to find any spiders but from the video that I saw the spiders seemed to be very docile and sedentary until something hits their web such as flies or other insects hit their web.]]> 2020-11-13 18:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921295535 fritz2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921379869 The primary web that I found was in a shed which I could tell was a platform web as it was larger than the other ones I saw and was similar to platform webs I’ve seen before as it covered a large amount of the inside of the shed. The other webs I found looked close to cobwebs and were much smaller than the one in the shed. ]]> 2020-11-13 18:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921379869 fritz2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921445315 From the look of the web I found I would say it resembles a filmy dome spider which would make the environment that they live in near the edge of woodlands, low vegetation arounds homes, and rarely are in the open. Their main food source is mosquitoes and gnats as they are not large enough for other food sources. Their adaptations to their locations depend but they wait underneath their webs to both hunt and avoid predation from birds and other predators. ]]> 2020-11-13 19:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921445315 fritz2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921598234 I wonder how much of an impact they have on the quality of life of humans and how long has the impact of spiders helped us in everyday life?]]> 2020-11-13 19:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921598234 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921639952 It was interesting to see how the spider built its web before a fly landed on it. ]]> 2020-11-13 19:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921639952 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921669408 The web that I found was messy and in some triangular shape. It seemed to have no sorts of organization to it.]]> 2020-11-13 20:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921669408 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921678854 I didn't see the spider that built the web ;(]]> 2020-11-13 20:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921678854 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921680477 I wonder how spider webs can protect spiders and what causes them to walk easily along a web unlike other insects that may get trapped on it.]]> 2020-11-13 20:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921680477 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921683600 I thought it was cool to check out the spider web and to see how different they can look and the differences that webs have upon each other. For example, the web I saw happened to be messy unlike a "typical" spider web that looks organized. ]]> 2020-11-13 20:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921683600 fritz2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921687270 I was always under the assumption that spiders made the same type of webs even if they were different species. With this project this has made me look at the types of webs I see differently and putting more thought behind each web I see as before I would just look at a web and not think about what type of spider created it. As well I also see myself looking at how the web is located and the environment around it as the effect its surroundings have on the web is something I’ve just begun to notice as well. ]]> 2020-11-13 20:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/921687270 blevy2022 https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/967384439 2020-11-28 19:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mking3816/dex3jn7m5a5w6qwd/wish/967384439