This retreat ends up in the horizontal web. If a prey falls on the sheet the spiders crabs it.
Prey is than dragged into the funnel for consumption.
The Linyphiidae make a sheet web without a funnel. They hang upside down below the web. The European house spiders belong to the Agelenidae. In Europe 28 species belongs to this family while in Australia, only one species is described. Linyphiidae has 30 described species in 18 genera and Stiphididae, a family that is unknown in Europe, has six genera with 12 known species.