A net/web isn't really a complicated structure when you think about it. If anything spiders have it easy since it just sticks together for them, don't have to tie knots or anything. >inb4 there's a spider that ties knots or something
>grug spider shits it proto-web out on the ground for housing, and alerting to the presence of bugs - some still do this, like tarantulas >arboreal grug spiders do it on branches and trunks >some moronic arboreal grug spider has buggy programming and puts it between the tunk and the branch making a little tent >snags flying insects all the fricking time >moronic arboreal grug spider eats well, has more energy, can do more shit, mates more > because first moronic grug spider had shitty programming, its offspring have it too >more grug spiders that do the tent thing instead >the more the weird tent thing is set up to catch bugs instead of be a shitty spider tent, the more the moronic spiders catch, the more they eat,. the better they are at surviving >keep repeating that "better bug catching = you get to have more babies" for millions of generations of spider until you get ornate webs and spiders built to make them
This is really the same answer for EVERY "how did this evolve" question. Some freak accident occurred that made a segment of the population better at doing a thing that allowed them to be more successful at breeding, and that thing got refined over time.
>Tents
I have a baby something-or-other in my window frame that made a large (compared to the little fella) tent that was 3d. I had no idea that was even a thing. He did in fact have a very tiny flying critter in there too.
That thing is toast if I find out it's a widow
It's probably a widow.
>be deinopidae >hunting spider with good eyesight >end up nocturnal for some fricking reason >develop super night vision eyes to see pray at night >can't close eyes though, go blind every sunrise from brightness >instead of evolving like, eyelids or something sane, evolve the ability to regrow new eyes every day
Not all spiders build webs to capture prey.
Ancestral spiders, hundreds of millions of years ago, developed silk, as have various other arthropods (including butterfly and moth larvae, some of which are known as silkworms).
Ancient spiders might first have used silk just to protect their eggs and to make trap doors. But once sticky silk started snaring insects that the spiders could eat, that became something that spiders could take advantage of. Some lineages of spiders continued to hunt or ambush prey, while others increasingly specialised in using silk, and eventually webs, to catch prey.
None of this is unique to spiders. New Zealand glowworms hang sticky silk threads in caves to catch prey.
Some species of carnivorous soil fungi make webs of themselves to trap nematode worms and other little critters.
It's all pretty amazing.
They are playing a completely different game from us. World is filled to the brim with bugs. Spiders are just hunting the worlds more varied prey.
Spiders are gay. If you’re a spider, I fricked your mom.
>fricking a spider milf
You lucky frick
Evolution is gayer than israel.
Why did we create spears? Nature just wanted to see if it works. And it did, so we stuck with tools.
so they just see the world in panoramic?
A net/web isn't really a complicated structure when you think about it. If anything spiders have it easy since it just sticks together for them, don't have to tie knots or anything.
>inb4 there's a spider that ties knots or something
Even knots aren't that complicated to make. They can even occur naturally like the earphones in my pocket
not only can they occur naturally, it's been shown that they favourably occur naturally given earphone-in-pocket-like conditions
>grug spider shits it proto-web out on the ground for housing, and alerting to the presence of bugs - some still do this, like tarantulas
>arboreal grug spiders do it on branches and trunks
>some moronic arboreal grug spider has buggy programming and puts it between the tunk and the branch making a little tent
>snags flying insects all the fricking time
>moronic arboreal grug spider eats well, has more energy, can do more shit, mates more
> because first moronic grug spider had shitty programming, its offspring have it too
>more grug spiders that do the tent thing instead
>the more the weird tent thing is set up to catch bugs instead of be a shitty spider tent, the more the moronic spiders catch, the more they eat,. the better they are at surviving
>keep repeating that "better bug catching = you get to have more babies" for millions of generations of spider until you get ornate webs and spiders built to make them
This is really the same answer for EVERY "how did this evolve" question. Some freak accident occurred that made a segment of the population better at doing a thing that allowed them to be more successful at breeding, and that thing got refined over time.
>Tents
I have a baby something-or-other in my window frame that made a large (compared to the little fella) tent that was 3d. I had no idea that was even a thing. He did in fact have a very tiny flying critter in there too.
That thing is toast if I find out it's a widow
It's probably a widow.
>you are inferior
post address. I'd like to show you just how inferior I am.
See, if you had this sort of candor all the time I could at least respect it. I don't understand why you people snivel.
If they had that kind of candor all the time they wouldn't have survived so many expulsions.
Why do you assume that that anon is Christian, let alone Caucasian? Anon could be israeli for all you know.
Spiders are adaptive as frick.
They are endlessly impressive should you fall down the spider hole and become a spider autist.
>should you fall down the spider hole
Then you die. Spiders show no mercy to their victims.
Why do they need so many eyes? What can 8 eyes do that 2 cant?
If we can see depth clearer than if we had 1 eye, does that mean spiders get to see whole visual dimensions we are incapable of comprehending?
Omnidirectional vision, redundancy
The portia ross jumping spider challenging how we understand intelligence at that size is fricking awesome
>Spiders are adaptive as frick.
>be deinopidae
>hunting spider with good eyesight
>end up nocturnal for some fricking reason
>develop super night vision eyes to see pray at night
>can't close eyes though, go blind every sunrise from brightness
>instead of evolving like, eyelids or something sane, evolve the ability to regrow new eyes every day
These guys are just trolling us
Not all spiders build webs to capture prey.
Ancestral spiders, hundreds of millions of years ago, developed silk, as have various other arthropods (including butterfly and moth larvae, some of which are known as silkworms).
Ancient spiders might first have used silk just to protect their eggs and to make trap doors. But once sticky silk started snaring insects that the spiders could eat, that became something that spiders could take advantage of. Some lineages of spiders continued to hunt or ambush prey, while others increasingly specialised in using silk, and eventually webs, to catch prey.
None of this is unique to spiders. New Zealand glowworms hang sticky silk threads in caves to catch prey.
Some species of carnivorous soil fungi make webs of themselves to trap nematode worms and other little critters.
It's all pretty amazing.
it didn't evolve.
No, yeah, it was definitely Athena being b***hy over an arts-and-crafts competition.
It probably doesn't seem odd to the spider