True Facts: The Ogre Faced Spider

this is Margaret Margaret is in the genus de nubes in a spider family daya nobody in Greek day nobis roughly translates to fearful appearance and therefore Margaret is often referred to as an ogre faced spider from Margaret's perspective however the creature that gave her that name is a friggin terrifying giant with teeth the size of her face she gave him the name of stick bastard wad in any case you've probably noticed Margaret's eyes right above those two little cute nostrils oh crap now those are also eyes she has eight eyes in total but the posterior median eyes are giant the largest of any spider in photographic terms these two compound lenses have the equivalent of an F number of 0.58 if you don't speak nerd that means dying they see good even more impressive each evening they take up to two hours to build up a photosensitive membrane of rhodopsin loaded microvilli inside their eyes this allows them to gather 1,500 times more photons than our eyes their night vision is far better than cats or a owls and all of this is part of an unusual hunting strategy members of the family die and nobody are netcasting spiders first day notice creates a scaffolding to hang from wait Jerry what's the spider doing do we have to blur that out I understand what I'm saying it looks dirty well that's even worse no I'm saying it looks like it's relieving stress like it was cramming for a math test and needed a break no judgment day no piss is a it's spider meaning that it uses an ancient organ called a crib bellum which translates the field of books nope that can't be true sorry translates to little sieve end up close the crab elem looks just like a field of pics the crab Elam is covered in almost twenty five thousand little spigots that produce incredibly thin fibers just nanometers across these nano fibers are combined with a sort of silk anchor line from the posterior spinnerets as well as silk from the median spinnerets basically there's a lot going on down there lots of spigots if you're a Dean opus and you laughed so hard you squirt a little it gets messy that is why they nobis never laughs but if it does it's a small sound like a one cheek spread fart on one of its legs on a segment called the metatarsus die nobis has a specialized little comb called the calamus Trimble this chemist from weaves and combs the crebbil at nano fibers into little puffs anchored onto two axial lines unlike its orb-weaving distant cousins de nobis does not create little drops of glue they no peace don't need no gear it does it old-school like a grandpa that played marbles with cat turds just give me a bunch of cotton balls on a yo-yo string I'll get you a chicken de nobis creates a net with this complex puffy silk which is then detaches from the surrounding silk scaffolding it grabs the edges in its little spider toes and test to see if it's stretchy stretchy just right it then does the next obvious thing she turns around and takes a poop directly beneath her captured here in sex tape night vision green some say this serves as a visual target but it could also be a stinky lure in the gist of don't where you eat and less what you eat likes but she then hangs upside down and waits when prey approaches she strikes it's a little anticlimactic to be honest like you know it's coming maybe let's look in slow motion I don't know it looks a little like what I would do if I hidden it between my legs what is amazing is that without view contact with even a single strand of the net can ensnare an insect it turns out that these little puffs have a secret in addition to creating tiny electrostatic attractive forces the Nano fibers change their structure when they come in contact with the waxy outer layer of the insect the Labour's seemingly fused with the wax itself it's like if the sweater that your grandma gave you fused into the packaging surrounding the Doritos this bond is much stronger than glue and allows de nobis to take its time wrapping its prey up in silk while the insect thinks check me out on a mummy I'm a mummy it bites the insect and injects it with venom with those little pores on its fangs maybe it bites it a bit more just for fun then liquefies it and slurps out the tasty parts she looks pissed it's like a lunch date after a bad argument rage chewing after dinner it's mating time a male approaches a female's where Ben taps gently to gauge interest prior to this the male had deposited a small drop of sperm onto a sperm web it then takes its palps which look like little boxing glove hands and it loads up a corkscrew a kind of thing in them which is sort of like a penis with sperm I'll say it I mean don't shake hands with spider-man because you don't know if all goes well and the female is receptive it's baby time with one more specialized silk weaving tray copper well but the female creates a remarkable egg sac it may look like a wild Bush testicle but inside it's a roomy one-bedroom apartment shared by up to 200 little babies and when it is time to emerge they cut a tiny circle and the circle of life continues is he gonna come out is that David I told you not to use him in this shot he's an idiot well I promise you David's not getting out by himself is Vanessa out okay we'll have her help I don't know what about that stick teller didn't give him that stick all right oh god he's trying to pull the stick into the hole now isn't he yep that's what he's doing so tell Vanessa to tell David to use the stick to get out of the hole [Music]

Channel: zefrank1

Views: 4,002,116

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Keywords: ze, zefrank, true facts, truefacts, deinopis, spiders, spider facts

Id: CNrF0JbDVc8

Length: 6min 46sec (406 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 26 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Gisandtoys]

Gluuerr.

[u/RUSTY_LEMONADE]

You should post this to /r/spiderbro

[u/Robothypejuice]

I really hope they start cranking out more of these. I love them but the periods of inactivity are killer.

[u/bill_b4]

Loved it!

[u/ILikeMyBlueEyes]

I laughed.

[u/memyselfandeye]

So weird. I remember watching his first videos on his own website ... tiny lowrez media player ... and thinking “woah ... the future!”

[u/go_for_the_bronze]

My favorite facts are the true ones!

[u/ScreamingTurnipp]

Fascinating

[u/warjoke]

Oh no, not David again! Gaddamit, David!