Now, I may be late to the party on this one, but holy jesus … what a terrifying concept. Apparently the spiders have been organizing under our very noses, constructing giant communal webs. Mosquitoes are the only victims for the time being, but what next? When they came for the mosquitoes, I said nothing. Then, when they came for the house pets, I said nothing. When the giant carnivorous spiders came for me, there was no one left to speak up.
On a serious tip, one can only imagine what kind of territorial disputes go on in an ecosystem such as this. It seems that an alliance of this nature must be an uneasy one, with traditionally solitary creatures competing often for the same food resources. I wonder what kind of critical threshold occurred to allow this to happen. Was it a density issue? Is it simply that there’s far too much food to go around and so competitive pressures are essentially nonexistent? And, most importantly, will there be runs on Raid? I’d be curious to learn more.
