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One half of me is fascinated by this as spiders are such amazing creatures. So long as they don't break our house rules they're welcome to stay, especially the spindles! The other half of me didn't scroll far enough down and a a slither of the video played at the bottom of the screen making me think a spider was running across my arm and made me jump!
Strangely reminiscent of "Children of Time"'s beginnings of spider intelligence
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I tried this with a yellowjacket and a screamer of a Shop Vac that has a six-foot hose. I was sure it would have suffocated from the dust inside the vacuum bag clogging its spiracles. Next morning, the wasp (now with tattered wings) was sitting in the corner of a window. I have no idea how it made it out.
Use glass and a paper sheet, much easier and less harsh on the "bugs".
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Read a bit further, the very next sentence??? > “All you could smell was sulfur hydrogen, and you cannot breathe,” Dr. Vrenozi said, recalling that most of the researchers were wearing masks. But as they descended deeper into the cave, she said that “you get used to the smell of spoiled eggs.” Also, you use "" but you are not quoting, the text inside your quotes does not exist in the article. The actual quote would b…
I was quoting the caption in one of the images at the top, not the article itself
I'm not sure if NYT articles are known to change their images and captions for different viewers? I checked the archived link too.
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glass and piece of card, come on!
The point is to send a message to the other spiders.
Pheromones, interpretive dance, telepathy,—I don’t know exactly how the others get the message but I know that they do, and they stay on the correct side of the doorway.
>“But in the cave, because it’s dark in there, our hypothesis was that they do not see each other,”
Will they start fighting one another now lights are being shone on them?
That seems remarkably warm. Is that typical for cave temperatures?
One half of me is fascinated by this as spiders are such amazing creatures. So long as they don't break our house rules they're welcome to stay, especially the spindles! The other half of me didn't scroll far enough down and a a slither of the video played at the bottom of the screen making me think a spider was running across my arm and made me jump!