Spiders (and other small animals) are in fact fine with falls many times the height of their own body, because of the difference in how quickly volume (and therefore mass) and surface area (and therefore air resistance) are scaling. On the other hand, the larger they are, the harder they fall
I believe you’re referring to Terminal Velocity
Small animals bounce, medium animals break, big animals splash
(FYI, do not look up examples)
A spider can literally float if it farts out some silk.
A horse becomes soup.
Depends on the spider. When I briefly lived in AZ we had a problem with tarantulas ending up on top of our cars if we left the light on outside during the night. I knocked off off the car roof and it literally splattered. I felt bad, I assumed they would be fine.
Aw man.
But soup can float in a way, so that’s the same
Soup … does not float.
Oh no, not again
Right in theory. But I used to live on the fifth floor and carried spiders to the window like I used to do before. In that Appartement the only difference to before was that I yeeted the spider from a height of 15m and not just 1m. That must be like skydiving without a parachute for the spider.
You could throw that spider off the 50th floor, it would be fine: https://youtu.be/f7KSfjv4Oq0?feature=shared
My spiders make such efforts to get away from my hand that I often end up taking the simple route and…killing them.
Normally I’m fine with them around to cut down on other insects, but they do show up in some annoying places for me.
As an arachnophobe I don’t relate.
Here is one the arachnophobes:
Ahhhhhh!
I’m an arachnophobe as well and I do this, if the spider isn’t huge (fortunately, there are no huge spiders when I live… AFAIK).
The depicted spider is a cellar spider btw., they are known to attack and eat redback spiders, huntsman spiders and house spiders. This is the anti-spider spider, the traitorous black legger.
So “Yay me!” for throwing it to it’s certain death?
We had a problem with ants this summer and leaving the apartment for a week to return to a spider haven was the best thing we could have done. The spiders took care of them. We are still finding eaten shells of ants wrapped in spider webs. Thank you little leggys
It may be scary, but they’re okay! I actually felt bad and looked up if they could get fall damage, but most bugs are so light that it doesn’t do anything to them. Let 'em fly!
“Let it out?” You mean let it out of this terrible life, right? That’s the real sarcasm part right? You were about to squash it, right? I’m trying to sleep at night, man!
