What spider will destroy its web?

Answer 1

Many other genera of web-weaving Spiders will leave their webs up until they get too torn by large insects, blundering humans, or whatever to really work very well at catching insects. Then they may build another web. I'm not sure whether they actually take the remnants of their old webs down or not. Maybe the most common thing is that some deer or cow or something just walks right through the web and so the spider has to start all over again. Imagine what you would have to do to find out what usually happens. You would have to find a spider that makes a web but does not make a new one every day. Then you would have to come back before the sky starts getting light and watch until late enough in the day that you could be sure that the spider wasn't going to tear down the old web. Then you would have to come back day after day after day, and in the end a boy on a bicycle might destroy the one you had been watching for weeks. You would have to start all over again. And of course just seeing what one spider of one species did would not be enough. You would have to watch many members of one species until you were pretty sure of what is the normal thing for that one species to do. Then you could start on the next species.