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CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 day ago

World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness

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World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness

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Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters (1,000 sq ft), dense enough to resemble a living curtain, home to an estimated 110,000 spiders. In…
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    imagine how many bugs must be in there for them to all stay fed

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      in the cave, the air close to the stream is packed with tiny Tanytarsus albisutus midges, whose larvae feed on the bacterial biofilms at the water’s edge. Their density – 45,000 per sq m (about 4,180 per sq ft) – provides an all-you-can-eat buffet for the spider colony, which essentially eradicates any food competition that would normally exist.

      Okay I want to unimagine it now

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        I hope there is a video of this

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          You wanna hold the camera??

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            Videos exist so cowards like me don’t have to be there in person

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        It is hard to decide what is worse, 45k bugs per m² or 110k spiders with a communal net dining on them…

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          I’m just glad they are staying in that condemned cave.

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        Don’t the spiders get bored of eating the same shit all day, every day?

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          Hmm. I wonder. It can’t be just humans, right? Why not spiders?

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          Two words: M SG

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          You gonna eat the same shit every day or choose to die?

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            Chinese again? We had chinese food yesterday.

            People in china eat chinese food every day.

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            Cannibalism

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