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Spider behavior concerning building webs - why one location & not another?
This is strictly for my own curiosity, but it's not exactly something a person could Google. I live near Houston, for climate information. There are 5 bushes in a row in a flower garden: ligustrum, crepe myrtle, ligustrum, crepe myrtle, ligustrum. The first ligustrum (furthest to the east) is covered in spider webs - various species. There doesn't seem to be any difference in the bushes besides in what order they are. There are no spider webs on any of the other bushes. They all get equal sunshine and shade, water, mulch, etc.. Why would spiders of varrying species decide to build webs on just one bush in a flower bed? I'm puzzled.
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- daniel gLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
If one particular plant has something like mites, it will attract spiders, and these spiders are going to be quite harmless. If not garden orb weavers, then likely small sheetweb spiders.
You might look closely, as spider mites can make webs, and they can be harmful to plants.
Wasps are killing all my beneficial spiders this year, and have some unknown bug eating on one flower in my garden. not mites or worms,and it is driving me mad to find the culprit.
Source(s): UC Irvine, entomology - ?Lv 45 years ago
The solutions already given have coated quite some the approaches spiders use to construct webs. yet one neat characteristic became not coated. some spiders migrate employing their webs. They build a small (super to them) sac like shape out of their information superhighway while they are on the suited of a bush or tree(or man made shape) and while the air currents are genuine, they launch it dragging them with it like we'd in a balloon. there are particular areas the place you could quite see them migrating on their webs. I observed this as quickly as interior the Sierra Nevada mountains.
