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A funnel-web spider is known for building a tunnel-like structure. The spider constructs a tunnel at the entrance of its web and waits at the bottom for prey to become trapped in the web.
Funnel web spiders create webs that resemble a tunnel, with a flat sheet of silk serving as the entrance. These spiders hide in the tunnel and wait for prey to land on the web before striking.
Often called a zipper spider or writing spider.
Spiders that build tunnel-shaped webs are known as funnel weavers or funnel-web spiders. They construct a funnel-shaped retreat where they wait for prey to become ensnared in the silk strands leading to the tunnel.
"Web" is the word that associates a spider with the internet due to the term "world wide web" being a common way to refer to the internet.
Because they are made of a thick mucus to trap anything that goes near it, well, anything small at least, clearly YOU don't get caught in a spider web, but mosquitoes and flies do. Then the spiders eat them.