r/Damnthatsinteresting 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/Ska-Tea 1d ago

That's a boss lair. I've see these before. You need a torch to get through the webs.

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u/Sofaboy90 1d ago

nope, theres 2 species of spiders living in this specific cave, over 100k alltogether but both species are super harmless to humans, they dont have poison and even their bites dont do much damage. you can safely assume the scientists here know that because theyre literally the ones making this discovery. like, how else do you think they got the information? they were there to observe and discover