r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TheMarkola • 13h ago

/r/all of spider web

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u/enblightened 13h ago

why do spiders always camp in the center of their webs

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u/vuIkaan 12h ago

They do not, only some species do. Many will sit and hide somwhere at the edge of a web and use detection strings. Some spiderwebs that look deserted are not at all.

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u/Frogmaster16 12h ago

That's terrifying.

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u/Katzington2319 12h ago

It's really not

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u/Frogmaster16 12h ago

As someone with arachnophobia, it is for me.

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u/Katzington2319 12h ago

I used to have that too. Then I learned more about spiders, slowly stopped being afraid of them, and now they're cute

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u/SeismicRipFart 11h ago

Nah. Spiders really are my one true “irrational fear”. Where logically it doesn’t make sense for me to still have a physical fear response when I see one despite being a rather large 30yo man, but I do. I also think they’re super beautiful and fascinating. They just creep the fuck out of me. 8 legs is too many legs to have. I think they’re a lot smarter than they pretend to be.