• Spiders & other arachnids
  • Spider diversity
    • What are spiders?
    • Spider origins
    • Classifying spiders
    • Spiders are everywhere
    • Glossary of spider terms
    • Web2Spider toolkit for schools
  • A Spider toolkit
    • The hairy spider
    • Spider structure
    • How spiders see the world
    • Silk: the spider's success story
    • Spider webs
    • Glossary of spider terms
  • A spider's life
    • Prey capture and feeding
    • Egg sacs, spiderlings and dispersal
    • Spider survival
    • Glossary of spider terms
  • Dangerous spiders
    • Funnel-web Spiders
    • Mouse Spiders
    • Spider bites and venoms
    • Brown Recluse Spider email hoax
  • Australia's spider fauna
    • Bird-dropping spider, Celaenia excavata
    • Black House Spider, Badumna insignis
    • Carrai Cave Spider, Progradungula carraiensis
    • Comb-footed Platform Spider, Achaearanea mundula
    • Cupboard Spiders, Steatoda sp.
    • Daddy-long-legs Spider, Pholcus phalangioides
    • Flower Spiders, Diaea sp.
    • Foliage Webbing Spider
    • Fringed Jumping Spider, Portia fimbriata
    • Ground spiders
    • Huntsman Spiders
    • Badge Huntsman Spiders, Neosparassus sp.
    • Jumping spiders
    • Lynx Spider
    • Magnificent Spider
    • Sydney Funnel-web Spider, Atrax robustus
    • Net-casting Spiders
    • Rufous Net-casting Spider
    • Garden Orb Weaving Spiders
    • Golden Orb Weaving Spiders, Nephila sp.
    • Silver Orb Weaving Spiders
    • Redback Spider, Latrodectus hasselti
    • Red-headed Mouse Spider, Missulena occatoria
    • Sac Spiders
    • Slater-eating Spider
    • Spotted Ground Spiders
    • St Andrew's Cross Spider, Argiope keyserlingi
    • Tasmanian Cave Spider
    • Trapdoor Spiders
    • Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider, Misgolas villosus
    • Triangular Spiders, Arkys sp.
    • Tube spiders
    • Two-spined Spider
    • Whip Spider
    • White-tailed Spider
    • Wolf Spiders
    • Garden Wolf Spider
    • Spider facts
  • Spiders in art and culture
    • Spiders in history
    • Spiders in Australian indigenous art
    • Spiders in Vanuatu
    • Spiders in West Africa
    • Spiders in popular culture
    • Tarantulas - the truth behind their evil image
  • Spiders in the Australian Museum Collections
    • Australian Museum Arachnology Collection
    • Cave Spiders of the Nullarbor
    • Mysterious Marine Spiders in Sydney Harbour
    • Stone Centipedes - Living Fossils
  • Other Arachnids
    • Scorpions
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Image Gallery: Spider webs and silk

Spiders use silk for many purposes, including web-building. View images of a variety of webs and other silk structures made by spiders.

Orb Web and Spider in Forest

Massed Nephila plumipes webs

An orb web

Hickmania troglodytes sheet web

Sheet Web of Black House Spider, Badumna insignis

Spider Egg Sac Tama

Uloborid Stick Spider, Miagrammopes sp. - On web with egg sac

A Jumping Spider's silken retreat and egg sac

Cribellate silk line, Ranguma sp

Web Builder Six spinnerets and a cribellum

Wool-like cribellate silk