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White strings this morning all over garden and house. What could this be?

dovie3dovie3 Posts: 6
in Problem solving
It doesn’t look like spider webs and I’ve never experienced this before.  It’s a foggy morning if that helps.  I see it in other gardens as well.  

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  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Frosted cobwebs.  Now you know you've got spiders nearby!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I saw lots whilst out with my pooch a while ago.
    It is frosted spider trails where condensation has formed then frozen

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  • dovie3dovie3 Posts: 6
    edited December 2023
    Oh thanks for your replies, I would have never guessed, but it does make sense.  Imagine spiders in this weather, they are certainly industrious little creatures.  
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    This explains how they stretch those strings across the gaps …
    https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-do-spiders-spring-webs-across-gaps 

    Amazing. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • dovie3dovie3 Posts: 6
    Oh thanks for that link Dove!  It answers lots of questions I’ve had about spider web construction.. 😁. I watched a spider in my coleus plant clean out a tiny twig I dropped on the web.  I was amazed at how quickly it went to work clearing out the rubbish. 😲
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Dovefromabove. I've always,wondered about that but never got around to finding out.
    Pinned that site to my favourites. Loads of interesting threads. Something to read when I'm awake at stupid o'clock in the morning
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • dovie3dovie3 Posts: 6
    I have lots of those stupid o’clocks in the morning too.. 😂. I’ve saved the site as well.  Thanks again! 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I've never seen as many as I did today when we went out for a walk.  Thousands of webs everywhere.  Weather conditions must have been perfect for the frost to form on them but not break even single threads.
  • dovie3dovie3 Posts: 6
    I agree.  Weather conditions were just right.  👍
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited December 2023
    Surely spiders must be swinging like Tarzan on a vine to fling themselves and the strings so far from their source. Do they have some kind of pendulum action going on? Like a child on a swing using their body weight to generate distance and force? Without the luck and help of wind, it seems a preternatural feat.


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