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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • No, thank you! I love any opportunity to share spood info, and orbweavers are amazing! The fact that they use their webs as giant ear drums (no seriously, watch the videos!) blew me away when I saw it.

    And there’s so much I learned about spiders growing up that’s just plain wrong but still repeated, it’s exciting never knowing what new thing you’ll learn (or old misconception you’ll UNlearn) when you start looking into spiders and their behaviors.

    OK I better shut up and leave before someone asks me about jumping spiders.











  • There’s a few spiders that do this (I know some orb-weavers do) and IIRC scientists don’t know for sure why, though it’s been hypothesized that it could be either to confuse potential predators or to make themselves and their webs obvious to larger animals.

    Some orb weavers like Argiopes even make a thick zigzag construction in their web called a stabilimentum that we don’t really understand the function of, but one theory is to make the web more visually obvious so larger animals don’t accidentally barrel into them.

    Spiders are neat.