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It's been awhile, but I was reading about black widows. Apparently the better fed they are, the worse the web, so they don't over feed. A chaotic web is a sig
by sliken 2y ago
It's been awhile, but I was reading about black widows. Apparently the better fed they are, the worse the web, so they don't over feed.
A chaotic web is a sign that the black widow spider is well fed and not hungry.
- mech422 2y agoHuh...I didn't know that...the lil S.O.B.s on my porch must be really well fed - the webs are everywhere :-D Thanks
- sliken 2y agoI'm pretty sure it's generally 1 spider per web, and I thought blackwidows (assuming they are still alive) take down the webs when done. So presumably you have quite a few spiders. In any case here's a discussion of said paper. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/death-trap-or-fortress-the-two-web-designs-of-black-widow-spiders#:~:text=She%20found%20that%20the%20starving,network%20of%20non%2Dstick%20strands https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/death-tra....
- mech422 2y agoyeah - I guess it varies but I can usually spot about 5 of them out at night...Thanks for the link!