Why do spiders not run away when they see a human?

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Its really weird that spiders dont run away when they see a human. Aren’t they hundreds of times larger than they are? Why do they just chill and sometimes descend onto people or near a person. They can literally see other creatures even humans.

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In general spiders do not have good eye sight (jumping spiders and wolf spiders are some of the exceptions). That’s one of the reasons many hunt using webs – they use the vibrations to locate their food rather than their eyesight. If a spider is on your ceiling, the likelihood is that it can’t see you.

Even when they can, they don’t see the world the same way we do. Their eyes and brain are so vastly different from ours.

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