Every time I come across a well made spider web, I always wonder how it started. How did the spider start here with the first thread and make it all the way to there? What's the algo the spider uses that determines the distances are not too far, or too far, or too small. Spider webs are impressive on so many levels.
One day after getting out of my car I let the door open for some reason, I came back to it maybe 15 seconds later and a spider had placed a thread between the far side of the open door and the roof of the car (a bit less than a meter long I guess), I watched it do the round trip a few times wondering how the hell did it do the first pass.
Any walk in denser forest on path not used frequently ends up with me having multiple of these single strings strewn across my face, and sometimes they dont come down so easily since they are sticky.
Most probably also on other parts of the body, but I dont sense it. Sometimes its so much I walk any narrower parts with my hands in the air in front of me, but I still often get bits on my face.
I would find a stick and wave it around in front of me for that very purpose. I also learned with my first camera in the 90s that came with "night vision" that the webs would reflect and be very bright. The stick was way more convenient and much cheaper
