As a Civil Engineer who has designed Bridges early in my career before specialising in Acoustics. Spider webs fascinated me most.
A little insect weaving this humongous net to trap its prey. As a Structure nNot The Sun, Not the pouring Rain in a thunder storm, Nor Gale Force winds blew away a spider web.
I have tried hitting a web with powerful water jets but could never dislodge them
What we see in India at homes are in fact little cob webs full of dust in the atmosphere adhering to a spider web. Australain Spider webs are something you have to see to appreciate.
Here is an extract from Wiki
A classic circular form spider's web
Opadometa fastigata weaving the web. See the silk coming from the spinneret glands located at the tip of the abdomen.
Spiral orb webs in Karijini, Western Australia
Garden Orbweaver with beetle prey caught in its web
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider")[1] is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceousspider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.
Spider webs have existed for at least 100 million years, as witnessed in a rare find of Early Cretaceous amber from Sussex, in southern England.[2] Many spiders build webs specifically to trap and catch insects to eat. However, not all spiders catch their prey in webs, and some do not build webs at all. "Spider web" is typically used to refer to a web that is apparently still in use (i.e. clean), whereas "cobweb" refers to abandoned (i.e. dusty) webs.[3] However, the word "cobweb" is also used by biologists to describe the tangled three-dimensional web[4] of some spiders of the family Theridiidae. While this large family is known as the cobweb spiders, they actually have a huge range of web architectures; other names for this spider family include tangle-web spiders and comb-footed spiders.
In my 3rd year at IIT Madras I took up painting and my very first entry in an open painting competition was just a 9inches x 9 inches piece of plywood on which a splashed all sorts of dark colours at random and drew a spider with my finger.
One could spot the spider only from an angle. Unfortunately I had no camera then to save a Photo :-(
In sydney when in the garden or on walks the minute I spot a spider web out comes the camera or Mob phone.
Here is one small collection I found archived :-
