Amazing Spider Tears Down its Spider Web Crab Spider Sun Spider

This crab spider took action at the perfect time. I set the shot up and zoomed in, at that exact momemt it started tearing down its spider web. The Spider collects all the bugs trapped overnight and stays all day on a nearby leaf. The following night the spider sets back up and repeats the process all over again.

Category:

Pets & Animals

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• SPIDER
• WEB
• TEAR
• DOWN
• NATURE
• DISCOVERY
• NATIONAL
• GEOGRAPHIC
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[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

[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

[Bonez0r]

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

[etxeberre1]

AWESOME!!!

[dslgunner1977]

@BramsGuitarist I agree!!! EXCELLANT footage!

[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...?

[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.