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| Common spiders like you do not have to go to school to learn how to make a web. You can make one by instinct. You choose a place near a plant. Then you produce a liquid silk from your spinnertes. Spinnertes are openings in the rear of your body. The silk hardens and is very difficult to see. | UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
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Next is the clever bit, you cover some but not all of your web lines with a sticky glue. In this way you will not get stuck in your own web. When finished you hide and wait for insects to visit the plant. If they do not see your web they might fly into it. |
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