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Try this.

Go outside at night, and take your smartphone with you. Turn the flashlight on, and shine it away from your face while holding the LED right above and between your eyes. Look at the lawn.

If your lawn is like mine, you will see 4-5 shiny reflections from the grass in every square meter of your land. They're not dew drops. They're ground spiders.



Alternatively just come to my house and try not to trip over a zoropsis.


sorry all i see are armies of skunks. no spiders.


only about half of the species of spiders spin webs. the others are hunters.


Your last line carries the horrifying implication of air spiders. :S


I think that's mostly as opposed to, say, tree-dwelling spiders... but then again, you know about ballooning, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_(spider)

Key quote: "Even atmospheric samples collected from balloons at five kilometres altitude and ships mid-ocean have reported spider landings."


Holy shit. Someone needs to do something! These little critters sneaked into that position with no one noticing. They are definitely up to something! Think about the children!!!




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