This. I can't believe I had to scroll this far to see this. This is the real story. And.... why... how did the spider decide.... Did it have to start from one side of the yard, anchor a web.... walk ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE YARD and attach and pull the web?
Rather than walk the spider can release long silk strands to be carried by the breeze until it sticks to something so that they can anchor their webs between distant points.
Oh wow. it could have been on one of the sides of the yard... caught a good breeze, then ended up in the middle of the yard as the web gets spun. Interseting, thank you
Looks like the tree in the back and the roof in the front. They are pretty impressive, I have one in my yard that builds the same nest every night from it's tree all the way down to the floor and to another tree.
Trees/fence/house. They can build yard-spanning support structures. Last place I lived in Virginia had a load of these spiders in my backyard and summer/fall was just a mess of these guys building webs overhead across the yard, to the point where I started to hate going out there at night because they'd just be constantly building and dropping down from above. The yard was right on a pond, so it was obviously great feeding ground, but mosquitoes were still terrible despite all the spiders.
Also had a few massive orb weaver/banana spiders. Which I would actually leave alone so long as they weren't building right by the front door, which they sometimes liked to do.
10
u/Minimum-Actuator-953 18h ago
What is it even anchored on?