To the spiders in my house: yes I want you to build webs and catch critters. Yes, you can use my house. But like, can you not put it in places I typically walk? Please? I don’t want to destroy your houses but I literally can’t see them.
were-humans? Is that like wolves that turn human on a full moon?
I guess etymologically it would just mean man-human. So it technically works
I’m taller than most people. I’m always getting a facefull of spider webs. I love spiders, though. Anything that eats mosquitoes gets a pass to mildly inconvenience me now and again.
Those single strands are to keep the web up. Kind of a big deal to spiderbro.
This’ll of course depend on the species, but usually the super long ones that people walk in to are the strands they use to get to a spot of their own after hatching. Many spiders just sort of yeet themselves to the wind after they hatch, attached with just that one single strand – that way all the hatchlings don’t just build their webs in the same spot. A huge percentage of them don’t make it, but that’s the r reproductive strategy for you
Many spiders just sort of yeet themselves to the wind after they hatch, attached with just that one single strand
I, too, have watched Charlotte’s Web
I, on the other hand, had no idea what that is. Apparently one of the filmatisations of the American children’s book by the same name?
That’s what I like a bit less about being the first hiker to walk the trail in the morning.
Carry a 3 foot stick, and wave it up and down in front of you. That’s what I have to do on this trail I hike that doesn’t get many hikers on it. I’m pretty sure I’m the only person that hikes it, and there are golden orb weavers everywhere.
Yeah, I usually start hoping I won’t need it but after hitting a few sticky webs I grab a stick and start waving it in front of me. But then I don’t go low enough or do a bad job and catch a few more with my legs or my head. Sometimes I just kind of forget and start using it as a walking stick only to be reminded why I was carrying it in the first place.
It works, but its effectiveness varies.
A few days ago I was trailblazing to another part of the trail and I walked face first into a huge web. I looked slightly to my left and there was an enormous spider an inch from my face. Thankfully they’re not dangerous, but it still gives me a low dose of the heebie-jeebies.
