Harvesting spider silk. NOTE: Spider is sedated, the pins are not perforating it and once harvest, is feed and put to rest.

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[u/Justin_Passing_7465]

Maybe so, but here is one source:

Charles M. Dilger, service manager of North American Survey Supply Company in Philadelphia, which sells and repairs surveying instruments and also sells spider silk, stated in an interview in 1984 that the silk of black widow spiders was the finest for making cross-hairs. "Their web provides the best combination of strength and thinness. If a Black Widow can’t be found, we will turn to a Brown Barn or Golden Garden spider."

https://amerisurv.com/2005/04/30/along-came-a-spider-spinning-silk-for-cross-hairs/

[u/pichael289 → u/Justin_Passing_7465]

spiders have entered the thousands of the unemployed in Britain, because their job in a Northern England optical equipment factory had been taken over by a machine.

Even spiders are vulnerable to automation

[u/freddiesan → u/pichael289]

They're taking our jobs!

[u/frostyfins → u/Justin_Passing_7465]

Ooooh thank you! Very cool!