Amazing Spider Tears Down its Spider Web Crab Spider Sun Spider

[etxeberre1]

AWESOME!!!

[Mikenopolis]

@ashleelmb. Depending on the specie. Some spiders take down their web because it looses stickiness. Also they can reuse the protein from the old web to make new web. Spiders gross me out but are still really fascinating.

[ashleelmb]

I wonder why it took down its own web...?

[Bonez0r]

For the first time in a long time i actually favorited a video again. Great stuff!

[nevadaxtube]

Awesome Dan.

[DarkAAProductions]

amazing. it combines the strands of web to form 1 stig of web, then it tears down one side and climbs up the other

[Torn80cj]

This is not a crab spider, it's one of the star bellied orb weaver spiders. Crab spiders are the ones that you see on flowers or on the bark of trees with a good camoflage to ambush their prey when it happens to come right next to the spider. They don't use a web to snag their dinner.

[DeathRat751]

did u notice how like the butt of the spide was missing o_o

[Torn80cj]

@DeathRat751 The spider has a butt(abdomen type section), it's just jagged looking instead of round like a lot of the orb weaver spiders. It's one of the "star bellied" orb weaver spiders.

[scudwerfer]

wooow i never see that before! Did i look right , she eat the strings of the web?!

[thunder88822]

Zech.4 1. [10] For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Look at the rainbow in the web...those seven...colors...and musical tones.

[PinchieMcPinch]

Entrancing. Simply entrancing.

[iosca09]

wow this is so so amazing good job man!!! my fav vid of all!!

[trofeolover]

Wow. Extremely impressive. (Isn't technology beautiful?) :)

[MrDani488]

o don't like spiderwebs but its a great video

[eskysucks]

pretty much the coolest thing ever

[BramsGuitarist]

I really hope that this is what you drive your career on. Animal Planet, National Geographics, Earth, they would all pay you the CASHIS for this. It looks so professional

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

@BramsGuitarist thank you for the great comment.

[davidattends]

@GREENPOWERSCIENCE

I was gonna write exactly the same as @BramsGuitarist . Although there are few mistakes by the camera man -in the excitement of the moment, it was easy to loose sight of the spider sometimes-, but National Geographic would edit this. DAMN, man, absolutely WONDERFUL video. I confess I HADN'T BELIEVED that spiders indeed tore out their web.

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

@davidattends :-) THANK YOU

[dslgunner1977]

@BramsGuitarist I agree!!! EXCELLANT footage!

[mvlady]

dude National geographic would pay you big money for this lol :p

[seriouslyWeird]

man, i wouldn't like to make a new web each day

[wezz7]

nice vid... obviously he is a shy feeder lol...

he puts alot of effort just to get a miserable little bug

[WannabeDetectiveAlex]

God that is so beautiful.

[1963bosaerbe]

amazing video !! good job

[Highairboarder]

why does it go to all that work?

[Silky2dope]

how cool is that

[CommanderKairu]

I'm so arachnaphobic that I get a chill down my spine for every ten seconds I watch this, but I can't stop watching O_O

[dickdog75]

sweet video!

[spencerscewl3]

did the camera man fart at 3:56?????

[690169]

WOW that spider had a plan and at the end you saw it take place with all that food in one big sack

[peachysurprise]

This spider made a web between my window glass and window screen, and at night I turn my table lamp on and I have TONS of bugs fly into my window and between the screen. They all flew into the web, and I watched as this HUGE spider just jumped out of no where and grabbed some of the bigger bugs to stop them from going away O_o" I screamed. It just... Came out of no where lol

[TheBoomdoom]

lol its eating the web

[zwd26]

Cool video, douchey soundtrack. 

[Brothergeorge]

It only has half a butt lump. what's up with that.

[JavaLessons]

Great design, that spider.

[Fontzilla]

Simply amazing video. Thanks for sharing it.

[ThePatheticClub]

That spider is a freaking ninja!

[DebbyShoemaker]

Beautiful!!

[FrankaDith]

Imagery and music on this piece is nothing less than inspiring.i am wowed and that does not happen to me much anymore 1000.000 Thank you.i was showed the meaning of life in the life of an insect...Tear.

[Goodfleisch]

He's some pig

Some pig

Some terrific, radiant, humble pig

He is some pig * "Zuckerman's Famous Pig"

[detubator]

Amazing! Well-made video too.

[dex0186]

that was pritty cool.now if we could just figure out how to mass produce there webs easily so we could use its tencile strength. we have spectra but its not as good and it does stretch as much

[Johnnylofat]

one of the coolest things i've ever seen

[DEZZIELIGHTBULB007]

Well done, Dan, excelent video.

David Attenborough would be proud!!!

[dafsmom78]

U made this so beautiful

[Bobster986]

Is he eating it, and why do they brake down their web?

[ricochetVendetta]

@Bobster986 recycle and renew. the web will collect dirt and water and become more visible

[anusmcshitswab]

how close were you to the spider?. i have had a small tunelweb spider bare its teeth at me after poking its web with a match stick.

[uglybob6666]

That is so awesome, it almost makes me not hate spiders! You sure get some GREAT shots with that camera! 

[apeinacrate76]

cool thanks for the info on the cam will have to get one this year:) nice work

[isaisai9192]

eat it but in a "nIce" way

[TeknoStatik87]

Even spiders have a systematic way of cleaning up after themselves.

Beautiful vid Dan!!

[drutter]

Amazing how all the legs work at once, performing really complicated actions. I can't get my two arms and two legs to work together that well.... even with no memory, emotion, or consciousness, the spider's nervous system beats me in that regard.

[jadewindsong]

Beautiful video. Thanks.



[Cloud9er]

great vid! that spider is so hard working :) taking home his sack of goodies...

[IdahoViewing]

That was a PHENOMENAL opening, VERY dramatic and precise. I have seen a very steep improvement curve in your videos, especially your nature series.

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

@IdahoViewing Thank you:-)

[apeinacrate76]

what kind of camra is that good pic Q :)

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

@apeinacrate76 Thankk you.

Casio Exilim EX-F1

Excellent for bright lighting, weak for low lighting. Only consumer camera for good high speed. Focusing tricky.

Same camera used for slow motion.

watch?v=PEp5eclwtHY

[victorsglp]

what are those things flying in background 0:26 -0:40 ?

someone said those are UFOs...lol

[mad4us]

amazing video, great sound track. Poor spider works so hard for his supper.

[rainbowsalads]

born with the knowledge to design & build webs , quite amazing indeed.

[TarzanandRambo]

maybe he heard of the oil spill and decided to move

[GSG9Tactician]

awesome

[darahz]

thats pretty awesome! Never seen that before :'o

[EdgeRetro]

Very nicely done!

[TK42138]

Great shots of a fascinating and often misunderstood animal. 

[Robert697]

Don't know who has more patience - the spider who's just doing its job, or you videotaping it.

[fakexloser]

I got to but that cam... what is it?

[fakexloser]

@fakexloser sorry BUY* LOL

[NeoQuello]

i takes energy to create all that thread so i guess he's recycling..

[intavent]

great vid

[pubtor]

spidey

[2LateIWon]

I hate SPIDERS. but it is amazing how they live and work. It's really pretty to see the rainbow through the web.

[KurtisTheGuy]

Wow a spider cautching its food I'm in awe.

[KennethKramm]

wonderful

[UltimaxNoobTuber]

If the spider does not catch anything for days, can it die of lack of energy by spinning so many webs?

[phenomenon91]

May I ask what the song name is ? (:

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

@phenomenon91

Hi,

Gathering Storm" The info is in the very beginning.

[phenomenon91]

@GREENPOWERSCIENCE Oh, thank you. I am blind :D

[nickprice235]

leave no trace ,1 rule of nature and last

[plumhead195]

awesome, it's like it's putting away it's tent :p

[jonguyen1]

AMAZING!!! Life is so beautiful ;-) There is no such thing as trade secrets... Only the one who really seeks for knowledge with his own awareness will be able to achieve wisdom of the Universe from everything, everywhere and at anytime. We are part of the creation... Only have a little bit disorder in visualizing--

[aidinmoh97]

it's going holidays!!

[orpheusABC]

stunningly beautiful!!!

[soogoonu]

like we go camping and at the end we eat our backpacking tent - this is green science bigtime

[social3ngin33rin]

I didn't know they did this

i thought they built them the way they liked the first time

And then built it again after i periodically destroy it

[pinsetter1991]

Great footage Dan! Looks like an Orb Weaver, I'm pretty sure it is.

[UnoRaza]

Don't kill spiders.

Turn them loose outside and they will clean up the bugs eating your plants.

[Perdoct]

why is he doing this madness? lol

[b21112TWO]

I would've squished it >:)

[XXXREDROOMXXX]

its amazing how small a spiders brain is but still deep inside it is this carefully designed blueprint in its dna for the web it weaves, a grand design of great beauty and intricate complexity. Sometimes I think we are the same, that in each of us is also a grand design, a web we weave of beauty and intricate complexity. The meaning of life may have nothing to do really with what we think in the shallow reflections of our mind but more so with what we are in our entire being.

[michaelmorgan5694]

The CIA and their invasion of privacy at it again!!! ha ha jk great video :)

[thehellsyeah123]

too bad youtube only has a like button there should be a "wow this amazing footage and everybody should watch this button"lol awesome footage ive never seen that before

[ShadowRayzzz]

:D niceee

[webyourstuff]

Wow! I didn't know this about spiders!

Two questions:

1. does he recycle the silk?

2. If spiders clean up their won debries, how do you explain all those olf webs up in my basement rafters?

[s87343jim]

Wow!!! Truly amazing! I didn't know any spider that does that! What is the name of the spider?

Thank you very much to show us such an awesome video!!!

[FXKrait]

@s87343jim It says in the title, its a "Sun Spider."

[morfeusz120]

Tota l real amazing vid.Great

[TranscendMedia]

What a well-deserved feast. Busy-body looks quite plumpish too.

[xutabola]

Great Great Video!!

[RoboTekno]

yummy :P

[vitalvegan]

i think it gathers nutrients from the sun and then harvests them.

[greenmarcosu]

The music is so appropriate. The spider also reminds me of a fisherman hauling in his net and heading home for the day.

[bertocaster]

Dies it eat the web?

[oxgon]

Fisherman of the sky! It looks amazing to see this, about what time was that? And how long after did it rebuild?

Are you in FL? cause that looks like this spider we use to call a crab spider and I use to see them in FL when I lived there.

Very nice video

[Casper3417]

Very cool

[youtubasoarus]

That is an incredible process. Incredibly laborious i'd imagine. I've never heard of this behavior, interesting to see. Thanks for posting.

[janaswang]

I don't quite understand, why does the spider tear down it's own web, why doesn't it just consume the bugs right then and there?

[greenmarcosu]

@janaswang The spider is being polite. It tears down its web so us humans don't run into it as we are walking around or climbing trees.