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December 5th - Spider Webs/Cob Webs |
In the mornings, whoever goes out from the shelter or tent first is called the cobweb breaker upper or spider web breaker upper. If you are the first person to go out on the trail you are constantly breaking up the spider webs that are between the trees and along bushes. There a lots of webs and they get on your face, your hands, legs, and arms. What's the difference between a cobweb and a spider web? And I thought, well, cob, could it have anything to do with corn on the cob? Are the webs made by the same type of insects that make the fuzzy-looking substance in the corner of barns where corn is stored? You know the stuff that looks like gossamer in the corner of barn ceilings. Is that called a cobweb too? There are lots of times I have broken cobwebs with my face. I can actually hear the strands break. You are rushing as you are walking and you don't see the webs between the trees that go across your path. Suddenly your face gets caught up in the webs and then you have to wipe your face as fast as you can. Well, if George goes ahead of me in the morning three or four hours later I come along thinking, I am not going to run into any spider webs but sure enough I do. They have been rebuilt in a matter of hours. Not all of the webs have been rebuilt, just some of them. How? How does a spider get a strand of its web to go horizontally? Gravity would pull the spider down as it spins a strand of its web Sometimes you will see a strand between two trees and the trees are about six or eight feet apart. Sometimes the web is between some branches. How does the spider spin its web horizontally? Do spiders swing like a pendulum? Do they go up high on a tree or and wait for the wind to blow so they can swing across to the closest branch or tree? I don't know. Anyway, most of the spider webs are gone now because it is winter. Now in the morning no more spider or cob webs? Where are they? They have gone into their winter homes. They are in hibernation. Where do spiders go in the winter? Could you find out for me? |
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