http://www.entsoc.org/PDF/2010/Orb-weaving-spiders.pdf

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/4-acre-spider-web-engulfs-building/

 

That is interesting, disgusting, and frightening, all at the same time. Putting aside all but the interesting, here's a quote from the first article: "...it is unsurprising that local prey abundance frequently appears to be the basis for facultative aggregating behavior by otherwise non-social species...."

The author was writing of spiders of course, but it makes me think of homo sapiens. I wonder what would happen if all the "prey abundance" went away?

 

I wasnt aware they can entomb a whole facility like that.
I found it when googling various terms together with the word spider.

 

guess you havent seen this before https://plus.google.com/108317225106328890612/posts/FdoMGXnEgXX

frozen cobweb!

 

guess you havent seen this before https://plus.google.com/108317225106328890612/posts/FdoMGXnEgXX

frozen cobweb!

When I need to just kick it and read stuff; you are a never ending supply of interesting stuff on spiders. Great for sipping a cup of coffee in the morning and get a good read.

Couldn't agree more with "tracecom"

kv

 

Must take a lot of bugs to feed that many spiders.

 

There's restaurant on a river I like. Outside they have a light pole over the water that attracts bugs in the summer. Since a lot of bugs end up in the water below, the water teems with fish enjoying the endless buffet. Remove the bugs and the spiders and the fish will look elsewhere.