Dr. Poppy Crum

But what this particular species, and not all spiders will do this, is predated on by echolocating bats and birds, which makes sense that then, you know, it tunes its web effectively.

And orb weavers are all over California.

They show up a lot around Thanksgiving, if you are October, November, for anyone that's out here on the West Coast.

They're not bad spiders.

They are not spiders you need to get rid of.

They're totally happy spiders.

There are some that maybe you should worry about more.

Anyhow.

they tune their webs to resonate like a violin.

And when you'll see it as I hit a certain frequency, it'll effectively tell me to go away.

And it's a pretty interesting sort of deterministic response.

Other insects do different things.

The one kind of funny for that was when my daughter was, I think at the time she was about two and a half or three, and she kind of adopted

asking me when we would see spiders if it was the kind we should sing to or the kind we shouldn't touch.

And so those were the two classes.

Yes.

Resonances, absolutely.

Yeah, not just by any vibration, right?

There's the idea that there's any vibration.

I know I've got food somewhere.