This morning, as I was sanding the railing on my deck, preparing to give it a new coat of stain, I noticed a large spider web next to the deck that was getting covered with dust from the sander. It didn't take long before the spider in the center of the web got annoyed and did something that surprised me. It dismantled its web. I wish I had taken the time to get out my phone and shoot a video because it was fascinating. The spider carefully snipped each short connecting strand from the long anchor strands and then deliberately rolled the anchor strands into a ball, dropping the ball every once in awhile as it got too big to hold. When it was finished, the web was completely gone. Later in the day, I asked myself why a spider would go to the trouble of dismantling its web before moving to the next spot. The only reason I came up with is to suppose that the spider knows that an abandoned web, even one covered with dust, might catch unwary insects, reducing the spider's potential pool of victims. Later, my sister pointed me to a web site that had a better explanation: http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/spiders-recycling/
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