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3 unusual facts about Spider web


Cobweb model

In either of the first two scenarios, the combination of the spiral and the supply and demand curves often looks like a cobweb, hence the name of the theory.

Earth vs. the Spider

In the cave they fall onto the gigantic orb web of an enormous spider, a Mexican redleg tarantula, which emerges from behind some rocks to get them.

Grey-headed Robin

Spider webs are used for binding or filling, and strips of fern and palm for lining the outside is decorated by dried vegetation.


Splendid Fairywren

The nest is built by the female; it is a round or domed structure made of loosely woven grasses and spider webs, with an entrance in one side close to the ground and well-concealed in thick and often thorny vegetation, such as Acacia pulchella or a species of Hakea.


see also

Heraldry of the World

The site uses a logo based on the now obsolete arms of Aasiaat municipality in Greenland, showing a spider web, which is an appropriate symbol for a website.

Najwa Karam

The beaded fulle spider-web bodysuit, designed by Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad, that was worn by Najwa in the video clip, was later also worn by Jennifer Lopez, in her music video, "On the Floor."

Teaser campaign

One of the more notable exceptions to this rule is Spider-Man, whose teaser trailer featured a mini-movie plot of bank robbers escaping in a helicopter, getting caught from behind and propelled backward into what at first appears to be a net, then is shown to be a gigantic spider web spun between the two towers at the World Trade Center.

Web decoration

It is claimed that E. B. White came up with the idea of a writing spider for his book Charlotte's Web after observing stabilimenta in a spider web.