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xkcd #3199: Early Arthropods

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'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3199/

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[-] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Some spiders still don't spin elaborate webs. I see a lot of crab spiders in my back yard. Their hunting strategy is just to sit motionless in the middle of a flower and grab pollinators, which why they come in floral colours like yellow or white.

this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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