XSworld

By XSworld

A change

I seem to be in the habit of checking in on invertebrates I have bumped into earlier. I blipped this spider about 2 weeks ago when I captured it motionless on the stickseeds. I had come to the conclusion that this was a jumping spider waiting for a pray to pass by (and must say that I feared it would go hungry for a while). Therefore I was surprised to find irregular threads close to the spider this second time round (and very happy to see it had survived the cold spell). Do jumping spiders weave? Or was it not a jumping spider? I looked it up, and in a recent article of The Scientist  about zebra jumping spider (not the species in todays blip) I found that some jumping spiders do make silk threads as they jump (just like spiderman), maybe to stabilize themselves and their silk threads are tougher than that of the orb weaver spider (which nb are stronger than steel) although they are made at about 30 times the speed..that is pretty amazing!  There are also jumping spiders that weave nocturnal shelters. Conclusion: jumping spiders know how to make silk! Still I'm not sure what kind of spider I have blipped (twice)..I thought for example that jumping spiders had bigger eyes..but I might be wrong..anyone that can help me identify this chap so that I can sleep tonight?

P.s.
In the comments you will see that this spider has been identified by PaulaRCReadman as a garden orb weaver.  I don't know if I should be worried that it has made a mess of a web!

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