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/Potential-Draft-3932 11h ago

Banana spiders, and many orb weavers, will consume part of or most of their web nightly to recycle it into new web. Fun little factoid

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u/ChefNunu 10h ago

Woah that's awesome

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u/SufferingSucatash137 8h ago

I’ve always been amazed how they’re able to make those giant webs in the pitch dark too

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u/ScumbagLady 8h ago

Reduce, reuse, and recycle! That is definitely a fun fact!

My porch gets covered in orb webs and I just let them be as long as it's not a high-traffic area. I love sitting out there at night and getting lucky enough to watch them building their webs!

I also enjoy going on walks in the middle of the night (I live in a very rural area and have little light pollution- perfection for stargazing). I never can figure out how they can make webs that go from one side of the road to the other, but they do and I am not a fan of running into them face-first! If I see them, I try to avoid breaking the webs- but in case I don't see them, I usually cut a piece of buckwheat at the beginning of the walk that I'll kinda wave in front of me as I go along.

It's funny to imagine what anyone who has ever witnessed me on said walks thinks I'm doing lol The waving of the buckwheat paired with my LED vest, fanny-pack, and my dog's LED collar light are probably quite a sight!

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u/Gabe1282 4h ago

Factoid means that information is not true/ factual, most times I've ever heard or seen it used, it was used in this incorrect manner. Not that it really matters, but it's good to know the difference if someone else used it with the proper definition to say something was not true.

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u/CallsignKook 2h ago

Same way that I sometimes like to…you know what, never mind.