do you think they purposely throw a web across the rode to hitch a ride?

 

I watch Discovery Channel a lot...

And some do indeed toss a thread out in the wind to use as a sail. Very possible that they have learned to hitch a ride! Let's hope black widows don't catch on any time soon...

 

let's apply for a goverment grant to study it

 

I've got a real good pair of binoculars and a microscope...

 

Ewwww, now I have something else to think about when I'm riding,lol

 

I believe it's just the cute little baby spiders looking for a new home, that do this...

 

open yer mouth you can have a snack!

 

one of the bennies of being bald... instead of a spider trap I've got a skating rink!

 

I think I read where they migrate with long threads that act as sails.Maybe 6000 mile two times a year.Check it out.

 

You're supposed to apply an ointment to the infested area and shave the hair. Oh wait....that wasn't for the scalp....and those were crabs, not spiders. Oh yeah...I remember now. You shave a strip of hair in the middle of your head, put lighter fluid on both sides, then light both sides. When the little critters run to the clearing you stab them with an ice pick. Oh wait...that was crabs too. Never mind.