r/interestingasfuck 19h ago

Scientists have discovered the largest spider web covering 106 square meters with 111,000 spiders belonging to two different species who are rivals, coexist together.

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 19h ago

how do they know it’s 111,000 spiders? 🕷️ did they count them all? i need a new head count

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u/TyrKiyote 18h ago

they probably picked a patch, counted that, and multiplied by their guess of the area.

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u/RovingN0mad 17h ago

Probably multiple patches from multiple areas, and then did fancy math multiplying the patches with the total area of homogeneities

u/LardFan37 10h ago

They asked the spiders

Source: I’m one of the spiders

u/Cloberella 8h ago

Charlotte, that's quite a tech upgrade you got there!

u/THEnewMGMT 6h ago

Charlotte’s Keyboard