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10 Amazing Recently Discovered Facts about Spiders

Friday, 14 November 2025

Spiders have been studied for centuries.  In Middle English the name for spider was coppe and they built coppewebs, a word still retained in the language as cobweb. Yet despite our familiarity with these enigmatic air-breathing arthropods, scientists are still discovering new facts about them – and not necessarily about newly discovered species either.  Here are ten amazing recently discovered facts about spiders.

10. Electrostatic Webs that Suck in Prey
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In 2013 students at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered that the web of the garden spider (or common cross spider) is attracted to charged objects. When a charged object is held next to a garden spider web, its threads arc towards each other. Many insects produce a charge when flying – the honeybee, for example, can generate a charge of up to 200 volts as it moves its wings.  So, if one gets close to a web, the threads arc, effectively sucking the hapless creature in to the web.

Charlotte’s Web was Never Like This…

Friday, 15 August 2025

 Sometimes, nature isn’t pretty – but it is still fascinating. Some spider species have a way of ensuring that the next generation gets a good start in life. In this particular case, narrated by the ever mellifluous Sir David Attenborough, the mother spider dies shortly after her eggs hatch. Rather than let her go to waste, her spiderlings take advantage of the situation. Drawn towards their mother, whose dying movements mimic the struggle of an insect caught in the web, they proceed to gobble her up without so much as a by your leave. The video below shows the full, gruesome truth, so if you are a little squeamish then perhaps avert your eyes. Ah, too late…

Filmed to become part of the new BBC natural history series Parenthood, this video shows the extraordinary lengths that animal parents will go through in order to secure a future for their offspring. As the title of this post points out, we didn’t see this happen to Charlotte (due to happenstance, perhaps, but still it puts Joy, Aranea and Nellie in a new light…).

 

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