Spider Web Construction in Slow Motion

Spiders are incredible engineers. This is a slow motion and normal speed closeup movie of a common garden spider building a web. I thought the webbuilding process was amazing before I grabbed my camerabut even more so after I slowed down the footage to 10 of normal speed So fast and efficient is this spider as it extracts silk from its abdomen, shifts its grip on the silk fibers from claw to claw, measures distances, and creates just the right amount of tension to keep the web ta