Spider Shoots 25 Metre Web | The Hunt | BBC Earth

it's called Darwin's bark spider and the female has a remarkable strategy [Music] [Music] like a real-life Spider Woman she sprays strands of silk in one long continuous flow the threads fan out like a sail and drift on air currents blowing across the water every few seconds she crimps the strands together to stop them spreading too widely the breeze will do the rest blowing the threads into a single line and a 25 meter bridge now she must reinforce her bridge because her web will hang from it [Music] but there's something bouncing the line at the other end another Darwin spider is trying to take advantage of her hard work [Music] she must deal with the intruder head on [Music] the cut line is an inconvenience but no more than that with hopes on the tips of each leg she gathers in the thread [Music] it won't go to waste as he'll eat it later when it's all reeled in she sprays again out streams another 25 meter bridging line [Music] how a spider no bigger than a thumbnail can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists and it's no ordinary silk it's the toughest natural fiber on the planet tougher than steel and it needs to be tough to span the wide river with the bridge taught and the ground anchor in place it's time to construct her trap [Music] [Music] these spiders can build the world's largest orb webs up to 2 metres wide a few hours from the first spray of bridging line the job is done [Music] now her strategy is simple sit and wait [Music] and there's one final bout of silk production shrink-wrapping her food for later [Music] you

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 5,061,212

Rating: 4.9439034 out of 5

Keywords: darwin's bark spider, spiders web, spider shooting web slow motion, spider making web, nature, animals, wildlife, wild, spiders, david attenborough, the hunt, webs, spider mananimal?, spider, insect, spider silk, real spider man, bbc earth, planet earth 2, spider web, spider shooting web, bbc spider, bbc earth spider, bbc, bbc documentary, bbc nature

Id: nlRkwuAcUd4

Length: 4min 8sec (248 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 25 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Yoshi511]

I met the guy that filmed this, he was doing an event I was at. He told me he was David Attenboroughs camera man. I was obviously fascinated and asked him the coolest thing he had filmed. He told me about this scene, I was kind of like.. Well that's lame.

Then I watched it and well, it's pretty fucking epic

Edit: spelling

[u/longhorn2118]

That's just wow.

[u/QuantumTheory5]

It's Incredible that spiders get such a bad rep when they're capable of feats like this.

[u/[deleted]]

Amazing. I don't like spiders but this is impressive.

Awesome camera work also. 0:25 is simply beautiful.

[u/teknomonk]

What's not being told is that the 2 spiders are lovers and just wanted to hold each other, but the bbc hired a sniper and shot the web to create more drama. SHAME ON YOU BBC

[u/MW777]

How long do you think they focused on spider butt before it shot its web?

[u/EtsuRah]

I wish there was a documentary series with this amount of good production that was based soupy on insects and spiders. It's always about other animals with some insects thrown in. But never a top tier high quality series focused souley on insects, and spiders and other bugs.

[u/CCJ22]

This is exactly what my x-wife did to me.

[u/RetrobeanNz]

I wonder if it feels like taking a really good shit