Do YOU know a Black Widow or Redback Spider web when you see one? Do you know any of the names given to spider webs? Watch this video to learn 4 very common spider web types and how to recognize them and the spider architects that designed them. Blak Widow (Latrodectus) webs look disorganized and look like cobwebs. Because that is what they are called. Carpet and Funnel webs look exactly as their name implies. Grass spiders are responsible for most webs of that design. The classic Orb Web is the number one most popular web structure out there, and it has influenced art, tattoos, nets, military and even arcitecture, itself. The Orb webs are beautiful and we see them all month in October as Halloween decorations. We see them in the forests, bridges, and even our front porch. Orb Weavers are what we call the spiders that make the famous Orb webs. The Bowl and Doily Spider makes one of the coolest webs found in the North Eastern United States. You NEED to watch this video to see the coolest web design in my area! #webs #spiders #spiderweb

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  1. Anytime I here spider talk I have to tell this story, I have this garage with a ouitside door I would lock everynight in the summer and every so often like once a week I would forget and faceplant into this big thick orb web which belonged to a big brown fat spider with black stripes on its legs. About 5 times of this the spider actuall built me a arcway for my head to go under and continues to do it for the rest of the summer every night. I have a knew respect for the intelligens for spiders and can never kill one just relocate and wish it good hunting. thanks for the videos its becoming really popular in my household.

  3. I remember my favorite kind of spider as a kid were the ones on the garage windows that made a soild white web with a tunnel and a big ole hairy looking spider lived in it..I would go out therein the summer during horsefly season, catch one, disable the fly and toss it into the web..Loved watching the spider rush out and grab it's meal;.. Tried it one time with a wasp. spider came out grabbed it but immediately let go and ran back home..lol

  10. This is a well timed video, I’m sure spider videos will get a lot of traffic at this time of year. Also, Evan and I finally got our lifer Argiopes yesterday! We found the Banded Garden Spiders, Argiope trifasciata, still have to find A. aurantia. Great stuff Chris, this was fascinating as always!
    – Harrison and Evan

  14. ha ha "Web-N-R" 'Doily' Perfect name, never knew. Looks like Cheshire Cat Smile. 6:00 8 )
    Black widow web (vertical) Always with "Debris" … yeah, 'Me', tho in Fla are Webs like this? Only seen clustered at edges.
    Mosquitoes? Any Beautyberry around? Rub leaf on cloths & self. repeat as needed. – large soft leaves, purple Ripe berries.

  15. Very cool video Chris! Now I know what kind of spider I had outside one of my sliding glass doors. It was an Orb Weaver and I watched it build a new web each night. It's amazing that those different spiders you pointed out build there webs so close to one another. Anyway, hope that all is well on your end… 👍👍😉😉

  20. 4:24 I found my first Argiope aurantia a few weeks ago and am absolutely mesmerized by her. I had never seen the zig-zag web before. Do you know much about these spiders? I'm just absolutely fascinated by her!

  21. Great video Chris, I always learn a lot from your videos. In fact, a few weeks ago I met a couple of kids from out of town photographing a yellow striped spider with a zig zag web. They wondered if it was poisonous and I

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