spiders spin webs in almost any direction you can imagine. If you have ever spent any time watching orb spiders make a web, you will realize how they do it. The best one I’ve ever seen was an orb web stretched between two tree limbs about twelve feet off the ground. If a spider puts a web in a place that is inconvenient for me, I usualy take a small stick, scoop him up and move him to a more out of the way place. Yeah, sometimes the wind will move a web strand, or sometimes these are parachute strands, which are long webs with a tiny ‘parachute’ at the end that young spiders use to travel from place to place. What’s cool about an orb web, is that the radius strands are not sticky, but the circular ‘orb’ strands are. The spider will make the radius first, then spend the remainder of its time going round and round to make the orb part. Spiders will stick to the sticky strands, and they usually walk on the non-sticky ones so as not to get trapped in their own web.