There was a giant spider in a tree behind my house that never seemed to move. For a month I would greet him, Jeff, whenever I left or returned home. Since Jeff never seemed to move, I got to thinkin’. How do spiders work? Do they realize they are spiders and go straight to building a web to chill on, or is that only a response to hunger? After they build a web, what happens if they don’t catch anything? Do they abandon the web to find better real estate, or do they just sit there until they catch something or get caught; or starve to death?
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As someone who has been kinda raising spiders for almost a year now, I can say that they do move sometimes. They are quite peculiar creatures, their growth seem to be based entirely on how much they eat, meaning they can look like babies for a long time but they’ll grow to adult size with enough food even if they had the baby size for a lot longer than their siblings. It’s an advantage of creatures who molt, I guess (it was very surprising for me to discover that spiders molt) Now, if they eat a lot from one big prey like, once, they just stay where they are, seemingly satisfied with just existing. At least the females do, the males just move randomly to a different web, maybe looking for females. Also, if their current web suffers disturbances too often or if they’re not capturing prey for too long, they won’t hesitate to move. If you ever wondered what they’re thinking: they aren’t, they don’t understand what they are, what is going on, that they exist. They’re little more than a robot in that regard, they have a programming that they follow but they don’t even know that.
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