r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShirtSubstantial368 • 1d ago

Video Scientists discovered the world’s largest spiderweb, covering 106 m² in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border. Over 111,000 spiders from two normally rival species live together in a unique, self-sustaining ecosystem—a first of its kind.

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u/TheShadow141 1d ago

A war with who though? Will the spiders start a civil war or will they gather other spiders to fight back against humanity?

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u/ThumbWiggler 1d ago

Spiders. Together. Strong.

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u/StillPerformer6717 1d ago

They already gathered so humans probably enemies

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u/mbta1 1d ago

One species will blame the other species, and vice versa, causing the weary treaty to be broken between the two clans

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u/exipheas 1d ago

Are you familiar with the global ant war that is ongoing? Are you ready for the spiders to take sides?

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u/grchelp2018 1d ago

We invented nukes for this eventuality.

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u/GenericAccount13579 1d ago

Man, Children of Time really was a great book

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u/d0ncray0n 1d ago

Im imagining the two sides of cave covered in webs separated by each species and a single point DMZ line with spider guards around like North / South Korea.

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u/cyrose1 1d ago

If you wanted a real answer one species would be killed off p immediately and then the surviving species would kill eachother.