Caught in My Web: Spiders!

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Spiders creep most of us out. But let’s face it: they are pretty darn amazing! For this edition of Caught in My Web, we appreciate our 8-legged friends.

1. Did you know that sea spiders use their gut as a heart?

2. And lace sheet weaver spiders make optical illusion webs to lure nocturnal moths.

3. Even our run-of-the-mill spiders are pretty amazing, when you really look at them. Watch this amazing timelapse of a garden orb web spider building a web:

4. Portia, the spider-hunting spider, is a genius with super-powers:

5. And researchers at the National University of Singapore have now found that personality affects how these smart spiders hunt.