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How smart are spiders?

ThePresence

ThePresence

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I just killed one in my place and left it there on the floor as a warning to all other spiders who would dare invade my domain. Think they'll get it?
 
doubt it.

just wait for a black widow to go to town on your nutsack one cold dark winters night tho...
 
I would think it would invite more as they would want to feast on the remains of spider to absorb its power and become super stpider.

Then you'll have a highlander/spider movie acted out in your home where they start jumping back and forth with swords and chopping each other's heads off.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: Shawn
Insects don't think. They just respond to their environment with preset responses.
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This is true, unless they are in a horror movie.
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I'd disagree, if you've ever seen videos of spiders stalking and ambushing prey. They show an ability to concieve a plan of attack, then adapt it as the circumstances require...sure, i suppose it could all be preset, but when you string a set of preset reponses together, that's what i'd call thinking if you did it, so why not a spider?
 
Went to my Dad's the other day. There is still a dead spider smashed on the ceiling from a couple years ago.

Haven't seen on since.
 
I'm not too sure about spiders, but if most snakes see/sense a dead snake they leave the area (this includes snakes that eat other snakes). I think spiders would be more likely to ignore it and take over its domain.
 
Originally posted by: ThePresence
I just killed one in my place and left it there on the floor as a warning to all other spiders who would dare invade my domain. Think they'll get it?
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sounds like the makings of a good Stephen King novel. 😉

 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: ThePresence
I just killed one in my place and left it there on the floor as a warning to all other spiders who would dare invade my domain. Think they'll get it?
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sounds like the makings of a good Stephen King novel. 😉
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Ahh, just wait until part 2!
 
ive tried the same thing- leaving it there and seeing what happens. Only in my case, it was this 2" long milipeed thing w/ long legs and very creepy. (when they die the legs keep moving for a couple seconds). I left one dead on my floor, and havent seen one for about a month.

ps- i usually saw one about once evey 1.5 weeks.
 
I once shot a spider with a BB gun about less than an inch away hanging from the top of my sliding glass door, didn't hurt him at all.
I bow down to spiders now, plus they are good for killing every other insect.
 
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