Talk:Spider web

message: The belief that spiderweb is an effective treatment for cuts appears to be quite widespread (I have come across it in England and in Laos). Does anyone know anything about this? 202.62.101.70 06:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Treatment for cuts

message: thumb| Spider in a web 
I'd like to propose this image for the spider web article.
: That's a nice image. You can post it to the page yourself if you like. No need to ask anyone's permission. Remember Wikipedia is built by the users.151.205.106.107 16:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image 

message: I clearly remember reading the New Scientist article (force-feeding drugs to spiders...it's not the kind of article you forget in a hurry), so I checked the New Scientist website. Verification of the existence of the article can be found here.
Simon
--192.93.164.20 07:03, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Spider webs and drugs

message: Hello, KarlBunker. You reverted my last edit (my first edit!) saying that the wikilinks I added were trivial. According to the Manual of Style, it recommends that wikilinks be added where users' curiousity would naturally take them and that 10% is the upper limit of the number of words that should be wikilinked. As I read this article earlier, I was frustrated that I couldn't click on "surface tension" and "protein" and "prey" to satisfy my curiousity. There are 1166 words in the article, and only 31 wikilinks, for a rate of 2.6%. I don't think this is too many wikilinks, and I'd like you to consider re-reverting back.Cas510 05:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cas510, some of the links  you added were a good idea, but I thought several were trivial words that didn't fit in with the purpose of internal links, for example: vibration, paper, morning, spray paint. I've replaced a lot of your links; I should have done that in the first place, rather than just reverting your edit, but I was lazy. Sorry about that, and thanks for opening a polite dialog rather than just re-reverting. KarlBunker 09:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiLinks

message: Mention why some spiders (here in Taiwan) decorate their webs with zigzags, etc.  Lure a mate? Jidanni 14:00, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zigzags 

message: I just saw a giant spiderweb on the news, apparently thousands of spiders contributed to it's construction. Does anyone care to add this? 71.89.8.194 10:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Giant Web 

message: (My Taiwan observations): Mention it's not your average spider web that
can hold a mosquito... they break away easy as they are strong...
Mention what types of insects hardly ever get caught in webs, and others that almost always do, despite similar sizes. Jidanni (talk) 04:44, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: stink bugs routinely ignore all webs  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 20:32, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which insects could care less about spider webs? 

message: Tony (talk) 04:22, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  great pics of webs 

message: Reference #7 to the state park in Texas is a dead link.  Here is a functioning one, but I am not sure how to insert it correctly: http://texasento.net/Social_Spider.htm  --KDS4444 18:38, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference #7 

message: Does anyone else feel this article could benefit from a picture showing the spider web holding large weight, such as a large amount of rainwater? -- Jack•?! 05:28, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image suggestion 

message: :Image:Skylab3 2.jpg has been lost in the merger from spider webs in space. Uncle G (talk) 20:17, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lost images 

message: Re the introduction.  I don't think a cobweb should be called a 'device'; that doesn't sound right at all.  An 'artifact' maybe or 'construct', perhaps even 'trap'? 86.134.117.67 (talk) 09:47, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Device? 

message: "The definition of 'spider web' is 'a thing you walk through that instantly turns you into a karate master'."
This is silly.  Would someone please delete this?  Or at least please explain how this is anything but silly, or even vandalism?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.251.194.24 (talk) 21:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Karate Master? delete? 

message: Perhaps "cobweb" is synonymous with "spider web", but I have always heard it used to refer to dusty irregular hanging webs that might be found in a cellar, I suspect mostly spun by cellar spiders (Pholcidae), as opposed to then neat clean geometric webs created by other spiders.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohanchous (talk • contribs) 15:08, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cobwebs 

message: This is just one brief discussion on why. There are many others.  
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf45730514.tip.html
69.235.5.198 (talk) 06:21, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probably wrong about cobwebs.   

message: --محمد الفلسطيني (talk) 07:02, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  video 

message: The construction of elaborate spider webs to me is the prime example of genetic memory. Have I got this wrong? Is their innate knowledge of how to build them accounted for in another way? Has any work been done that links these concepts? I find it fascinating and have been sniffing around Wikipedia for more information about it but haven't found this instinctive ability of spiders discussed anywhere.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 02:38, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genetic memory 

message: I would like to contribute to the article with this infographic about common steps of orb-webs building. Since I'm a communication designer, I'm asking you to check the accuracy of the work and to give me a feedback. I would upload it on the article only after a technical approval. -- 
Dav92ide (talk) 22:32, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infographic about orb-webs building steps 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I humbly suggest some additions to this section. In many settings (movies, illustration, holiday decoration, tattoos) spider webs convey an almost immediate sense of spookiness, elapsed time, and neglect. The Greek myth of Arachne might merit mention as well. I'mma hafta find some sources to cite for this.... PurpleChez (talk) 15:42, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  popular culture 

message: "...after a time the silk will lose its stickiness and thus become inefficient at capturing prey. It is common for spiders to eat their own web daily..."
It's not clear to me here if spiders spin their webs every day, or only when they lose their stickiness 'after a time'. I've been told that spiders make a new web every day - if anyone knows, maybe it could be added to the article. Nick Michael (talk) 14:17, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Orb weavers do; cribellate spiders that don't use sticky glue drops generally don't. I'll try to source and update this. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:56, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spin web daily? 

message: An absolutely major topic missing from this article is the difference between cribellate and ecribellate spiders and their webs. Webs made by cribellate spiders don't use sticky glue as the adhesive, whereas the article implies that all web work this way. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:29, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cribellate and ecribellate spiders and their webs 

message: It seems that sometimes a spider of one species will climb on a temporarily appropriate webbing, especially cobwebs, made by another, eating or dislodging the other unless it was empty. Are there studies on spiders using foreign webbing? Haven't seen anything specific but it must often be among spiders that prey on each other, even mutually depending on size and circumstance. It would be interesting to see if more neutral or commensal sharing occurs... Who is like God? (talk) 00:39, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shared or stolen webbing? 

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