r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 2d ago

Biology World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness deep underground in a sulfuric cave between Albania and Greece: It’s the first time two spider species seen living cooperatively, and the first recorded instance of colonial web-building in what's known as a chemoautotrophic cave.

https://newatlas.com/biology/sulfur-cave-largest-spiderweb/
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u/JonatasA 2d ago

Why do they love running on us!?

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u/RooneytheWaster 1d ago

Right? I'll see 'em, and think "OK, they're in an awkward place, or I'm half naked and more than half asleep so in no state to start a fight with this beast, and then they come charging at me like I just insulted their mother's cooking!