Do spiders have hands?

[JR6ooo4]

How do they hold onto the spider web?

Mikeeee

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

No, but my roommate's dog has hands (or at least he seems to think he does....he uses his front paws as hands.....one time I got them rawhide "lollipops" and he held his with his front paws just like a kid would hold a real lollipop. Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera handy at the time.)

 

[Darsa]

Hehe! That is the fluffiest question I ever heard

Here you go:

Spiders lay down two types of webbing, says U of T zoology professor Darryl Gwynne: sticky and non-sticky. In fact, some spiders do get stuck in their own sticky webs, mainly by accident. But most are able to bypass the sticky strands and follow the safe trail of non-sticky webs laid down first for their own convenience.

Gwynne, who teaches at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, says web-building has several phases. A spider begins by attaching a single strand of silk horizontally between two supports, such as twigs or branches. It then builds an outside rim — almost like a bicycle wheel — and attaches spokes and a spiral from the centre to the outside of the web. These parts of the web are all composed of non sticky silk. With this frame — the foundation for a decent web — firmly in place, the spider adds the sticky strands, once again in a spiral pattern. This spiral is connected to the non-sticky spokes. "So, when a spider runs across from the centre of the web to grab a prey, it tends to go along a spoke, stepping on the bits that aren't sticky," Gwynne says. "And this essentially is the reason that spiders don't get stuck to their webs."

 

[Luv2Scrap]

Hehe! That is the fluffiest question I ever heard

Here you go:

Spiders lay down two types of webbing, says U of T zoology professor Darryl Gwynne: sticky and non-sticky. In fact, some spiders do get stuck in their own sticky webs, mainly by accident. But most are able to bypass the sticky strands and follow the safe trail of non-sticky webs laid down first for their own convenience.

Gwynne, who teaches at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, says web-building has several phases. A spider begins by attaching a single strand of silk horizontally between two supports, such as twigs or branches. It then builds an outside rim — almost like a bicycle wheel — and attaches spokes and a spiral from the centre to the outside of the web. These parts of the web are all composed of non sticky silk. With this frame — the foundation for a decent web — firmly in place, the spider adds the sticky strands, once again in a spiral pattern. This spiral is connected to the non-sticky spokes. "So, when a spider runs across from the centre of the web to grab a prey, it tends to go along a spoke, stepping on the bits that aren't sticky," Gwynne says. "And this essentially is the reason that spiders don't get stuck to their webs."

That is way more than I ever wanted to know about spiders, and yet... it's fascinating!

 

[JR6ooo4]

cool info,

but if they are walking on the non sticky strands, even more so, does that not prove my point that they must have hands and fingers to to grab on?

Mikeeee

 

[Mad4Mickey]

I will never get close enough to see but lets just keep assuming they do

 

[Piglet843]

There's a spider in my car.

Every morning this week I've had to tear down webbing from my windshield / rearview mirror / radar detector.

I'd love to tear his little hands off.... If i could find the blasted spawn of satin....

 

[JerseyJanice]

I don't know, but I have always wondered about this--

Do chickens have lips?

 

[Darsa]

Do chickens have lips?

It's hard to say, since I'm told they're harvested to make some kinds of hot dogs

(I kid, I kid!!)

 

[JerseyJanice]

It's hard to say, since I'm told they're harvested to make some kinds of hot dogs

(I kid, I kid!!)

Me too, Darsa!

I have a friend who always says "do chickens have lips?" when someone else might say, "do bears poop in the woods?"

So I wonder--are there lips on chicken beaks? Or is my friend just very silly?

 

[SeaSpray]

There's a spider in my car.

Every morning this week I've had to tear down webbing from my windshield / rearview mirror / radar detector.

I'd love to tear his little hands off.... If i could find the blasted spawn of satin....

Awesome play on words, and quite tag-worthy if I might add!!!