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Spiders frequently leave their webs. Male spiders leave their webs to crawl about in search of female spiders of the same species. Some orb-weaving spiders tear down their old web after it gets light in the morning, and then make a new one at night. Other spiders get their webs torn down for them (by, e.g., some clumsy human walking right through it) and have to start all over again. And on top of that, any web-weaving spider I've ever seen will drop on a silken bungee cord to escape whenever anything very much bigger than they are violently shakes their web.

Some spiders spend most of their time in a protected place that is connected to their web with a sort of telegraph line, or "string telephone line" would be more like it. When an insect gets caught that shakes the web and the web shakes the signal line. At that point the spider will climb back up that line to the web and deal with the struggling insect. Then, when it's all wrapped up, she will carry it back to her place of safety.

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