Josh Clark
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Basically like John McClane in Die Hard.
And they're attached to the silk, so they swing into a window in the Nakatomi building and then climb back up when the bird goes away.
But they just jump off the leaf to get away.
What do you know?
Or if they inch, they just shoot themselves off.
They inch so quickly that it shoots them right off of the leaf.
You've probably seen them before.
Yeah, there's some kinds of spiders that do that.
But I think probably more often than not, what you're seeing are gregarious caterpillars getting together.
What's neat is those trails are often intergenerational.
An older generation will leave that silk for the next generation to use.
And that next generation then can grow bigger and stronger because they didn't have to use that energy to create the silk that leads to the food source.
I thought that was pretty nice.
Yeah, same thing.
Hand-me-down silk, length of rope from grandpa.