A spider web unlike any seen before
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A spider web unlike any seen before
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#3https://archive.ph/25NVv
Some other stories about it that got no traction here: https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/worlds-biggest-s..., https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-largest-sp...
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#5... excuse me while I Nope! TF out
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#6This is fascinating. My first question would be what are they catching?
What can sustain that number of spiders so far underground?
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#7Spiders are super solitary creatures. I wonder, though, if they could become social.
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#8This is fascinating. My first question would be what are they catching? What can sustain that number of spiders so far underground?
From the article:
> The vast spider population is attributed to an abundant food supply: more than 2.4 million midges in the cave, ready to be entangled in the intricate web.
...although I guess the question then is what sustains the millions of midges!
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#9Spiders are super solitary creatures. I wonder, though, if they could become social.
There are hundreds of species of social spiders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_spider