Do mosquitoes get trapped in spider webs?

tl;dr Yes, mosquitoes do get trapped in spider webs. You may have seen this image circulating on the internet. read more

tl;dr Yes, mosquitoes do get trapped in spider webs. You may have seen this image circulating on the internet. The above image is of trees shrouded in spider webs lining the edges of a submerged farm field in the Pakistani village of Sindh, where the massive floods in the year 2010 drove millions of spiders and possibly other insects into the trees. read more

So if a spider finds itself in another spider's web, it's likely to step on one of the sticky ones and wind up stuck, like when you go looking for the bathroom in someone else's home and open the wrong door by mistake. read more

And then other people didn't believe that and thought that the spiders just avoid the sticky parts of the web because it does - it turns out that not the whole web is sticky. I didn't know that, but just the spiral part is the only sticky part of the orb web. read more