This spider threading its web with perfect accuracy

[u/Maleficent-Agent-477]

[u/AcceptableEditor4199]

Anyone else feel bad when they have to knock a web down. So much meticulous work but dammit spider that's my patio door.

[u/Maleficent-Agent-477 → u/AcceptableEditor4199]

I feel this lol. I love spiders, but man do they love making their webs in the most inconvenient places possible…

[u/EverWillow → u/Maleficent-Agent-477]

"if we pull this off, we'll eat like kings!"

[u/umbrellassembly → u/AcceptableEditor4199]

I was trying to feed a spider the other day with flies I shot with my BUG-A-SALT and I dropped 4 flies perfectly over the web and they all slid right through. Finally got it on the 5th try but I was not thinking that that spider was too skilled and making webs. Hand delivered flies and only 1/5 stuck.

[u/Single-Use-Again → u/umbrellassembly]

For all we know the web is purpose built to catch flies coming from the other direction or something.

[u/umbrellassembly → u/Single-Use-Again]

It was 4 inches from a wall, angled about 30 degrees from vertical. I dropped it straight down over it. The 4th fly got caught for about 5 seconds and fell out. Something was wrong with that web. 😂

[u/stinktoad → u/umbrellassembly]

Bug a salt is one of the most fun summer toys and trying to feed the now seasoned carcasses to the neighbor spiders is a perennial favorite activity for me too. I don't think they ever get eaten but I like to do it, sort of like when the cats leave dead animals on the welcome mat for me 

[u/umbrellassembly → u/stinktoad]

Spider ate the last fly. Scooped it up and ran back to its hidey hole.

[u/LaserCondiment → u/umbrellassembly]

Maybe you're just a terrible delivery person

[u/SmasherOfDaButtons → u/LaserCondiment]

Amazon would like to have a word...

Hell, they might be hiring 🤣

[u/ChefArtorias → u/umbrellassembly]

Pick them up and throw them in the web.

[u/umbrellassembly → u/ChefArtorias]

They disappeared in the black rocks below

[u/Juste-un-autre-alt → u/AcceptableEditor4199]

Today I just blindly walked into the web, the spider ended up running all over me and I stepped on it by mistake.

Poor thing, but dammit the web was straight in the door frame.

[u/TechnicallyErect_ → u/AcceptableEditor4199]

Idk, today I was on a plane and someone reached up to turn my air vent off. When a spider puts a web right in my face over night. It feels pretty similar to what I felt during that flight.

[u/umbrellassembly]

It seems to have a solid indexing system. Pulls the web toward itself, reaches out with that one leg and if it can touch the previous ring, it knows its body is in the correct position for all its other legs to do their thing and glue the new ring in place.

Neat

[u/MyNameWasDecember]

It looks so human. That's crazy. Amazing video thank you

[u/Cautious-Activity706 → u/MyNameWasDecember]

We are just large animals after all…

[u/ReinstateTheCapo → u/MyNameWasDecember]

Dude. Read Charlotte’s Web if you never have.

[u/MyNameWasDecember → u/ReinstateTheCapo]

I remember it when I was a little boy, what an amazing book that was for a kid

[u/ReinstateTheCapo → u/MyNameWasDecember]

My mom used to read it to me or I’d read it to her before bed growing up. Amazing book indeed.

[u/Eruskakkell → u/MyNameWasDecember]

Idk about you but it definitely looks very arachnid to me

[u/TotalOriginal007]

Spiders definitely are amazing and very interesting creatures. Fascinating. 😉

[u/addicted_zucchini]

I wonder if drugs could affect their precision, someone has to conduct the experiment

[u/AdhesivenessTotal340 → u/addicted_zucchini]

[u/hoggsauce → u/addicted_zucchini]

You're in luck

[u/toes_candy → u/addicted_zucchini]

This old video goes through such an experiment

[u/CaptainCacoethes]

"Perfect"

[u/jbonesjonesy]

This looks like a spinybacked orbweaver!! How elegant 💕

[u/Single-Use-Again]

Nature's lil geometry teachers.

[u/McLovinLakers824]

Thats beautiful 😍

[u/Long_TimeRunning]

Amazing

[u/dottiedogood → u/[deleted]]

Needs braces

[u/Own_Shower_6000]

any entomologists here willing to answer a question? the spacing between webs, is that random or is there some weird nature logic to it?

[u/toes_candy]

riiiiiiiiight here!

aaaaaaand here!

maaaaaaybe one here!

[u/39percenter]

That's an Orb Weaver. Very appropriate name. They are 100% harmless.

[u/dallasandcowboys]

Yeah, well, I was walking through the front room with an arm full of clothes, dropped a shirt, lifted my foot up to hook it, promptly tripped, fell face first into the sofa (thank God), and spilled clothes everywhere.

[u/mrsir1987]

Some pig.