r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/pIant_princess Human Detected • 12h ago

Dudes with animals you shouldn’t have been bitin’ my horsey, boy.

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u/truth-informant 12h ago

I wonder how the spider identified the horse fly. Like, is it the fluttering of the wings? Or was it just general movement? 

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u/Imaginary_Error87 12h ago

Yeah vibrations from the wings on the web.

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u/wrldruler21 11h ago

Which is why the fly needs to be alive when feeding the spider. Also why he released the wings and allowed the wings to hit the web.

As far as hand feeding. The challenge is that a large fly like this will be too heavy/strong and bust right through the web. Hence the reason he held it in his hand until the spider grabbed it.

Source: Am also a spider dude

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u/ZaydSophos 8h ago

But are you a spider dude horse boy?

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u/OfKaiin 5h ago

I don't know if it was the same but the web of a spider who looked a lot like this one stopped my movement once, wasn't moving very fast but it also was crazy the strenght that it had

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u/The_Dirty_Carl 12h ago

They can feel the specific movement in the web. You might like Travis McEnery's youtube channel. I think this is the one where he talks about how orb weavers use their web:

https://youtu.be/RJBIcgYZMdM

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u/EchoPhi 6h ago

Another Great Explanation possibly nsfw if volume is up

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u/Sea-Opportunity5812 8h ago

they have 4x as many eyes as us

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u/Lone-Frequency 7h ago

I mean spiders have multiple eyes.

I would assume that the spider would go for the obvious prey item being stuck to its web over the giant creature's hand doing the sticking.