Wtf

[impure]

jumping spiders.
seriously.

[scue]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Am I the only person that read Animal Farm in high school?

nope, but probably the only one who remembered it, unfortunately.

[jenai]

Originally Posted by Kraig

You peeps that hate spiders are gonna love this pic.

This was sent to me via email... I highly doubt it's local, but could you imagine?!

That's so sweet: Momma spider protecting the brood. It was prolly telling the kids: "Look! Dinner is taking pics of us again!"

[jenai]

Originally Posted by dabbler

sorry but this still takes the cake (other than it being outside, but still WAAAAY creepier when you read the backstory)




"Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park....it's not the work of one giant spider, but a community of thousands"

Communal spiders in a humongus web have to be an evolutionary step like anthills and bee hives.

The good news is, Vancouver is too wet for them to get communal. So they live in basements and crawlspaces, and the smarter ones are on the prowl for bugs.

I dunno. Just programmed to make artless webs like in the pic above is not intelligent by any sense, except if they are actually observed co-operating, as the text suggests.

I mean, a male spider offering female spiders leftover meals as distraction so he can get laid, I count as intelligent.

[dj_soo]

Spider Myths: Home

[dabbler]

Originally Posted by jenai

Communal spiders in a humongus web have to be an evolutionary step like anthills and bee hives.

The good news is, Vancouver is too wet for them to get communal. So they live in basements and crawlspaces, and the smarter ones are on the prowl for bugs.

I dunno. Just programmed to make artless webs like in the pic above is not intelligent by any sense, except if they are actually observed co-operating, as the text suggests.

I mean, a male spider offering female spiders leftover meals as distraction so he can get laid, I count as intelligent.

^^^

[BUZZER]

not evolutionary, and yes it makes sense. They were observed working together, despite Spiders normally being cannabalistic because the web was right next to a lake. And it just so happened that the weather that year in that area was so good that the insect population had a gigantic spike (and a lot of them were breeding in the lake) which meant the food source was off the charts.
- Sidenote, the web in the picture was one of three times it was built, after being destroyed by a storm every few weeks,and was also made up up dozens of species not just one type