I took this picture of spider net in the Butchant Gardens in Victoria on Nov 13th, 2010. I extremely hate spiders, but I'm quite interested in how they make their nets. Although I've already had some knowledge about it, I decide to search for more information.
As we know, spiders raddle nets in order to catch insects for food. Everyday they rest on their new-builted net and wait for victims. Spider's net is kind of sticky so that whenever an insect hits it, no matter how they try to escape, it mostly ends in vain. Sometimes even the spider itself will be stuck by its net; they usually move carefully and avoid touching those sticky areas.
I heard a story about spider net before. It's about a huge spider eating a bird. It took place in Austrlia and someone has taken the photo of it. This shocked biologist quite a lot. The poor bird was stuck on the net and the spider was as big as human's hand. However the spider couldn't devour the bird at once. It used toxic fluid to decompose the bird and saved the body in the net; it ate it slowly afterwards.
Isn't that fun? I think it's really interesting to observe spider net too, though a bit disgusting.
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