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Spiders are super solitary creatures. I wonder, though, if they could become social.
by dr_dshiv 9mo ago
Spiders are super solitary creatures. I wonder, though, if they could become social.
- albedoa 9mo agoThere are hundreds of species of social spiders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_spider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_spider
- nomilk 9mo agoImpressive that there's a wiki article on precisely that topic.
- dr_dshiv 9mo agoWow, thank you! I obviously had no idea! Although, in terms of numbers, according to that Wikipedia: “Several permutations of social behavior exist amongst the 23 species of spider considered to be quasi-social out of some 45,000 known species of spider”
- sph 9mo agoYou might enjoy the book Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- motoxpro 9mo agoThe perfect thread and comment to recommend this book!
- Nition 9mo agoOr maybe A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.
- MrVandemar 9mo agoOr maybe Web (1979) by John Wyndham.
- publicdebates 9mo agoOr maybe Charlotte's Web by E. B. White.
- pwndByDeath 9mo agoIt begins!
- emmelaich 9mo agoNot sure if you'd count it as social, but the dancing spiders certainly put effort into courtship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkzwG2lLPc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkzwG2lLPc Peacock spiders, dance for your life! - BBC
- tim333 9mo agoThere's youtube of: The Process of Making Friends With a Tiny Spider https://youtu.be/i6ucE1cfzmE https://youtu.be/i6ucE1cfzmE
- gus_massa 9mo agoI've seen old brick wall with a lot of funnel of spiders. (I'm not sure it's the exact same specie of spider.) They were close, but not in contact of each other IIRC. I guess when there is not enough room they get use to have neighbors and then evolution makes them less grumpy.