thread: Bright Red Spider Web...what spider?

  1. #1
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    Mar 2008
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    Bright Red Spider Web...what spider?

    Hello people!

    As I was checking out my tomato plant growing today in the garden i noticed that some 'hair' had been entangled in the bush and was wrapped around the stake...when i tried to break it i realised that it was MUCH stronger than hair and then i called DH over and he said: 'oh yeah! i pulled that off yesterday...must of come back'.

    So, my detective skills ('cause i am so jiggy with it lol) surmise that it must be spider web...what spider though?? it is cool, it feels like it is ribbed, is SUPER strong and bright red.

    anyone have any clue?

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    Feb 2010
    on a big patch of paradise.
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    Don't know but sounds like something cool (yet blood chilling) to see. I have never seen or heard or red web.

    Okay did a quick look around the web (haha pun intented) and maybe spider mites (actual arachnid not insect). They make a dirt coloured webbing?

    Are there any leaves turning yellow?
    Last edited by Kazzo; January 7th, 2013 at 06:52 AM. : more info

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    ....hmmm not as cool...but totally plausible considering it is a tomato plant! No yellow leaves yet...might be time to get the garlic spray out!