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Fellow Arachnid Fans, What's Up With This Sticky Stuff ? (hilariouschaos.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/spiders

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I gotta know if any of you have seen this crazy thing before. I was in my garden the other day watering my Chile peppers that i grow and sell, when I spot a spider web right next to my bell pepper patch.

It didn't look like the average kind of web. This thing was covered in this, like, super sticky goo. Not the usual fly-catching kind, this stuff was seriously sticky.

Like, if you brushed against it, it would stick to your clothes. I Googled it and didn't find much information that matched it.

The web looked like pure silk and had colorful spots on it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The sticky stuff is a brown recluse, obviously! [/joke]

Serious now. It would be great if you had pictures of that sticky stuff, and/or the spider, but do note that some spiders produce multiple types of silk, and they also vary in stickiness. Example from the article:

Note how the silk going on the horizontal and vertical is different.

About the colourful spots: I'm not sure on what I'm going to say, but couldn't they be pollen stuck in the web? I also happen to grow hot peppers, and they sometimes release a lot of pollen.