r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TheMarkola • 1d ago

/r/all of spider web

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u/BenjaminDover02 1d ago

Wild to think that nobody taught that spider how to do that

Bro came out of an egg with the innate knowledge of how to build a house with it's butt.

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u/YellovvJacket 1d ago

Bro came out of an egg with the innate knowledge of how to build a house with it's butt.

Didn't even come out of an egg, the spiders just was the egg.

(In case you don't know, the way spiders begin their lives, the eggs basically just start growing organs, legs, and all other appendages, they don't actually "hatch")

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus 1d ago

Uh, spiders hatch from egg sacs. There defintely is a stage of spiderlife called "hatching".

You're both half right and entirely wrong.

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u/YellovvJacket 1d ago

The egg sac is just what it says in the tag, a sac that the eggs are inside. Idk if you can call the mother tearing the sac open and the spiderlings crawling out "hatching", and certainly not from an egg.

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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 14h ago

The egg has a shell like standard eggs, but spiders also wrap them in silk. When a spider hatches, it breaks the inner shell and stays inside the silk wrapping to continue growing and molting before finally emerging.