cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38448510
World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness
https://newatlas.com/biology/sulfur-cave-largest-spiderweb/
https://newatlas.com/biology/sulfur-cave-largest-spiderweb/
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38448510
19 Comments
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 304d
Spiders Georg is absolutely beside himself
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 304d
The signal to noise ratio on that network has gotta be insane.
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 304d
Lolth smiles upon thee.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 304d
Is this the dark web I keep hearing about?
celeste@kbin.earth · 17 pts · 304d
I wonder if they have any social interactions with each other, beyond mating and so on.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 304d
Not since the cotillion last June.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 304d
Go to a lil market, discuss politics, chat in coffee shops, etc ... all in a friendly manner between two species where one is 4× larger (in body-length alone) than the other. Basically like humans & cats.
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 303d
Did you, by chance, read "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky? 😬
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 303d
Not yet!!
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 303d
I wonder how much cannibalism there is. I cant imagine their prey make it far past the entrance.
Grimy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 304d
The sheer hubris of actually touching it repeatedly. There is no way to know how it could react to outside bacteria and whatever else is on him. He might have just killed the entire thing just to get his Tik Tok video.
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com · 12 pts · 304d
You summed up Tik Tok perfectly, yes.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 304d
Just being there and breathing probably releases more bacteria than just touching it
tooclose104@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 303d
Not gonna lie, I thought this was going in a different direction. Like, the hubris, it could have reacted by swarming him like he was food to a hungry, sentient blob of nightmares.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 304d
Abandon, all hope.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
No way. This is cool.
scott@lem.free.as · 6 pts · 304d
Shelob!
NONE_dc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 304d
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 303d
Good for them, big mood.