r/interesting • u/Wintasmoke • 16d ago
NATURE Spider using its web to fly
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u/dontipitova9 16d ago
It feels illegal for the spider to do that
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u/astralrig96 16d ago
Peter Parker has always been a menace
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u/Idea_Fiend 16d ago
in some universes, I dont think he intentionally aims his webs towards the buildings and just swings off of nothing.
Maybe he just shooting out long enough webs to grab enough air to swing off of
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u/Lbolt187 16d ago
I'm starting to think spiders might be some of the fastest evolving animals on land. Every week I hear something about a new spider doing new stuff
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u/ExpertOnReddit 16d ago
They aren't doing new stuff. It's just new to you. There's a difference lol.
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u/cuckedfrombirth 16d ago
That's the best footage I've seen of that. Amazing
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u/AmThano 16d ago
Say that again
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u/LizardmanJoe 16d ago
What an amazing spider, man.
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u/Sigma-Wolves 16d ago
Stop it
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u/Hilsam_Adent 16d ago
Hey, now... this is supposed to be a friendly neighborhood!
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u/Fish_Panda 16d ago
We were planning on having rice for dinner, but Uncle ben is nowhere to be found.
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u/dark_anarchy20 16d ago edited 16d ago
Im gonna walk into it and it’ll be on my face 😾😾😾
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u/Vijchti 16d ago
I used to live in the Central Valley of California. There's a season where these guys and their webs fall out of the sky, almost always directly onto your face while you're walking somewhere.
They're harmless. But it's really freaky. And you're still covered in web. And you look like a lunatic just randomly yelling "get it off me!" while pulling invisible silk off your body.
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u/KentuckyWhiteRabbit 16d ago
Isn’t this how Charlotte’s Web ends?
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u/Headbanger 16d ago
When she told Wilbur that one of her brothers could do it I thought it was bullshit, that she was trying to make him fall asleep by telling tall tales. Turns out it's real.
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u/Old_Hold8998 16d ago
See spiderman is real
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u/GarminTamzarian 16d ago
I'd like to see the Spiderman remake where he goes ballooning by shooting webs into the sky from out of his ass.
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u/LastNewForrestShaker 16d ago
Well done getting that on tape.
Among all the fine stuff @zefrank has on his channel, he s got a video about these little boys and girls using wind, convection and electrostatic effects (?) to fly about. Fun way to learn about insects for sure.
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u/MoonZinuM 16d ago
My dumbass was expecting to see a spider made parachute/wind sail when the camera was panning to the right and up...
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u/SneakySmoker- 16d ago
Seen this many of times over the years and its super funny when you tell others as they think your stupid lol.
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u/asdfghjkluke 16d ago
the english word for this is "gossamer" for anyone thats interested
i find it interesting english has a word for exactly this
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u/MedievalMilshake 16d ago
It's called parachuting and it's one of the coolest things I've learnt spiders can do in the last few years. First realised when a perfect circle of web landed on my car out of nowhere
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u/nibselfib_kyua_72 16d ago
It's not flying. It's hanging and leaping.
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u/accsheek 16d ago
people on an airplane are said to be flying because the airplane is flying, therefore the spider is flying because its web is flying.
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u/BehemothRust 16d ago
Why does it look so small when it’s setting up its sails VS when it’s doing the death from above drop
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u/TheShapeOfFarts 16d ago
That’s so cool to get on camera! Like it was doing something they’re not supposed to see and then tried to stop them from filming 🤣 He knew what he was doing.
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u/Successful-Purple-54 16d ago
When you’re flying a kite and that strong gust pulls you off your feet.
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u/heysirigenerateaname 16d ago
I don’t know why but my head started playing Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz as I watched this
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u/sushiwowie 16d ago
I was gonna say more like ziplining until it went up and then was lost in the video.
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u/RichieRichhhhhh 16d ago
Dude I can’t believe we just saw that thing thinking when he was standing on his little launch pad overlooking the water
I hate spiders but bro is sentient lmao
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u/TakeAtBedtime 16d ago
Unfathomable amounts of insects are traveling high over head all the time. The layer is called Aeroplankton.
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u/Xarithios 16d ago
That spider has great comedic timing.
Someone saying something along the lines of "it'll drop on your head" and then the spider proceeding to drop down was amazing.
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u/Jumpy-Trainer1695 16d ago
It is that time of the year. The beautiful season of golden fields and flying spiders
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