How to make Spider Silk Thread

Step 2 Find abandoned webs

Collect only abandoned webs for spinning into thread. Not only is it nicer to the spiders, who are excellent predators of evil bugs such as mosquitoes, it prevents a chance encounter with a spider, whom you do not want to piss off. Certain spiders will build new webs everyday, such as orchard and crab orb spiders. Others, such as the yellow orb spider will maintain the same web as long as possible, sometimes building on new additions, and making humongous multi-story webs. Only when a yellow orb weaver spider decides to move to a new spot does it abandon its web.

Its not that hard to tell if a web is abandoned -- there is no spider in the web. Be careful, though, because it could be hiding off to the side where you don't see it at first.