The value of big webs

According to this week’s NY Times Science section, French scientists find that spiders invest valuable daily energy building and rebuilding larger rather than smaller webs. Although the probabilities of catching large nutrition sources is small though vital to the spider’s vitality and survival, larger webs are more effective and worth the cost. After all, only larger webs are capable of catching larger possibilities.

For some reason, I’m thinking … social networks … dreams …

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2 Responses to “The value of big webs”

  1. Garnet
    July 22nd, 2005 10:25
    1

    Indeed. Webbing meekly in a corner never caught a big fly.

  2. jack
    July 22nd, 2005 13:52
    2

    I love that … webbing meekly. So true …

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