Do spider recognize their own webbing?

[Kathy]

If you were to put an enclosure on the floor with the t's webbing already in it, do you think the spider who made it would recognize it and be drawn to it - or do most spiders take over any other t's web and not care who made it and just make use of it.

 

[Embers To Ashes]

I think they know if its their webbing.

 

[grayzone]

most definitely. coincidentally thats what got me into the hobby. lol as i mentioned a ton of times i used to HATE spiders and i got my 1st t as a gag gift. every fall when id go out for a smoke i used to snatch common spiders out of their webs and place them in other spiders webs and watch them fight. NOT OUT OF CRUELTY I SWEAR, i just found it highly interesting .. even if the newly introduced spider won, itd make the existing web ITS NEW home, by partially destroying the web, and remodeling.... id feed all the CHAMPIONS crane flys and other bugs thatd be in abundance for that time of year to see how big they got and id always wonder where theyd disappear to when theyre gone. anyway, people would casually tease me while smoking and observing what i was doin and thats how the HOBBY started for me. my cuz scared the heck outta me with a 5 " parahybana as a joke christmas gift assuming i liked spiders... the rest is history...... anyway to answer your question id say yes... a spiders web is like its personal fingerprint or signature... no two are the same... not sure how they know their work, but i think they do

 

[Kris-wIth-a-K]

Yeah. If you take a T out of its enclosure with a lot of webbing and put it at the other end of it. The T will almost always run right to its hide.

 

[Ariel]

I'd say so. When I rehoused my male P. chordatus I threw in a chunk of his old webbing and for the first hour he clung to it as if it could save him from the unfamiliar and large enclosure.

 

[Kathy]

Hmmmm, okay then. I have that OBT that escaped 5 weeks ago and I was just in the garage and his enclosure still has all that webbing in it. I'm going to put it on the floor in the corner where he can crawl back into it. Maybe, just maybe, he will recognize it as his and come home. It's a long shot, but I'm running out of ideas.