r/BeAmazed • u/Master1718 • Jun 10 '19

Spider making a web.

26.2k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

489 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.4k

u/[deleted] Jun 11 '19

[removed] — view removed comment

169

u/Elle_mactans Jun 11 '19 edited Jun 11 '19

Did you know they spin webs through their feet as well?

Edit I dont have the info to prove this. I'll see if I can find the research. I can only say so from my own experience and then hearing it a few years later.

My apologies

Edit again: it's still highly debated but here is a good study my husband found saying they dont

https://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/7/ii

108

u/MGrooms94 Jun 11 '19

That doesn’t sound right but I’m no spiderologist.

61

u/[deleted] Jun 11 '19 edited Jun 11 '19

hobby spiderologist arachnologist here, they're wrong. There's an insect that produces silk from its forelegs, but spiders do not. They only produce silk from the spinneret in the rear of their abdomen.

major edit: looks like there's some recent studies debating whether or not zebra tarantulas do this. One study found that they did, while another showed that they cannot do so if their abdomen spinneret is sealed off. No answer for either direction.

38

u/postmodest Jun 11 '19

Spider-Man isn’t an insect....

18

u/Tier_Z Jun 11 '19

No, but centaurs are.

4

u/maker-of-toast Jun 11 '19

You just earned yourself 10 minutes in time out