@@BugsandBiology I thought you were talking about the music being quiet. In spite of all of that, I quite enjoy your work. I was quite into insects and other arthropods when I was a kid. I enjoyed snakes and lizards as well.
The music volume is a weird thing to balance. It often turns out louder in the finished result than it sounded during editing, leading me to err on the side of caution when adding it to a video. Especially since I've previously received comments stating the music was too loud/distracting.
I mean just evolution and need. They have really sensitive eyes so they cannot hunt during the day, or function at all during the day (you will see then hidden under leaves in the dark not moving until night) So if the spider is going to not move it needs a hunting style that fits that. And unlike orb weavers who's eyes don't melt in the sun, net casters can't exactly just make a Web in broad daylight and stay there and wait for food to come, as their eyes are way too sensitive for that. So there only real options are being an ambush predator, and giving their frame they can't be a like a wolf spider, or a tarantula, or a huntsman where they rely on speed and size to catch prey, because well net casters are both really small, and also not particularly strong for their size (really thin spindly legs compared to say a wolf spiders extremely strong front legs Then you factor in that their webs aren't sticky but wooly, and suddenly you have a spider that needs to stay still and wait patiently for its prey to stand a chance. And if you are going to hunt by staying still the entire time, it makes sense to have some kinda trap to capture food, so nets end up being the easiest solution for these spiders. Especially when you consider they live in Australia, a country that is really rough for smaller spiders given that there's so many bigger spiders like huntmans that want nothing more than to eat smaller spiders. Basically some baby spiders try using a net and it ends up being successful so the babies that made nets continue to procreate whereas the items don't, and that eventually leads ro their body shifting to maximise the efficiency of the style of hunting that worke Tldr: it's mostly just due to environment and their biology, a weak spider with long limbs, and great eyesight that's useless during the day.
This was a fantastic video Jackson, no idea why the algorithm isn’t showing this to your spider people. I really enjoy your presentation style, the casual delivery of your staggering amount of knowledge and your dry humor make for a great combo. Net casting spiders are a group I really need to see, it’s a dream of mine to film the full sequence of them catching a bug in the net. Great stuff man!
@BugsandBiology they are amazing for thumbnails if you show-off their eyes. But yeah the most eye catching part about them is the face, and if you dint notice the face they just look boring. It's my favourite spider by far tho because of the face, just so unique and beautiful
I found these incredibly fascinating but terrifying to look at as a small kid (and this is coming from someone who has never been afraid of spiders at any point), mostly because of those eyes.
1:05 i found a huntsman a few days ago with 5 legs, i felt sorry for the guy so i put him in my terrarium, 2 days ago he molted and now has all his legs back, ill keep him for a while until hes at full strength then release him back. Pretty cool, it can regrow all its missing legs at once
I don’t find it that way at all it has this crisp old school documentary sound that really goes with the nature of what you’re filming. That’s just my take. Love the work please don’t stop.
Much appreciated! That is the style I tend to aim for, with a strong focus on storytelling, especially in videos that are less information-heavy. As for a better camera, well, maybe. My recent TH-cam earnings alone could probably pay for one, but at the same time, I'm not really in a position to be spending a large sum of money on new equipment when my current phone camera is perfectly useful in most situations.
@@BugsandBiology they never said you should pay for it your self, they ment with help from others. Every body benefits from you having a better camera, not just you.
I've been to Melbourne & Sydney while wishing to visit Queensland. After watching your footages on Aussie spiders & centipedes, my wish has just been stronger. Btw, your new spider icon is so cool, but I still miss the old centipede one! Perhaps, I'm a centipede guy, more so than as a spider one!
Lovely spider-did I read somewhere that they drop a poop as a target spot to help with accuracy when capturing prey? Your videos/narration are top notch👍
"Why it's called that is.... Why it's called that." *rolls credits* Naming a genus must be a big honor, and I recall species named after pokemon like charizard or mewtwo, but "aha, ha" must be the single weirdest name. But net casting spiders are very cool, got to love the diversity of ways arthropods hunt, it's so much more varied than "I am spider and therefore sit in my web and do nothing else"
They really are super intriguing creatures. The way they hunt has easily got to be one of the most unique out of any spider, and seeing them construct their nets in real life is just something else.
@@BugsandBiology lmao. There are a lot of animals with names that'll give you weird looks. Just for note. Idiosoma nigrum is definitely one that makes people think twice bout what I've just said lol
Maybe idk what im on about but whenever i see vidoes of this spider at night i always worry that pointing the flashlight at it has burned its eyes out :(
I knew a little about those types of spiders, but I didn’t know their hunting details or how they are able to destroy and regenerate tissues so easily. They are having something quite similar to tool use actually. After all, araneomorph diversity is very high. I mostly know about tarantulas, a few larger true spiders, scorpions, and myriapods. Now I need to look if those spiders exist in Europe. They are quite fascinating.
That's fascinating that they digest their retinas to deal with daylight. Do you know if that's unique to subrufa, or is that common for the genus or even family?
Every time I I approach a spider it seems to hiss at me. Well big desert spiders camel or something like. I literally will go out another door to leave the house. Take whatever u want spider 🕷️ ✌🏼:))
I mean 1 does it for a full time job, and the other does it for a hobby. Like yeah you would expect the person doing it as a full time job, marketing to kids would do better than someone doing it as a hobby marketed towards other people in the hobby
@@lunaeons45 yeah this is also the same guy who likes to try and say everything coyote does is a scam basically, so I could careless man, dudes just butthurt
I don't want to hear you say another word about the beasts of the outback, until you present us with PROOF that you have a license to collect sebastians for research and educational purposes
"funnel website," "funnel of spider," and "funnel up spider's pets" were all pretty plainly just some translator (auto-correct?) giving him fits when trying to write "funnel web spider," but I don't even know what "sebastians" was trying to be
What a beautifull creature!! So ingenious to hunt like that. It realy makes me wonder... How could something so ingenious like that evolve... It can not can it?? It must have some sort of intelligent design... I am not religious but like I said, it makes me wonder about the natural wonders on this beautifull planet of ours... Sorry I was clearly late with this comment. Sorry @liviviv
I can definitely see something like that evolving through incremental steps with increasing complexity, but I’m not sure how much research has been done regarding the evolution of Deinopids.
@@BugsandBiology I obvious don't know either but I also think that it would be difficult to find anything of their predecesors. I doubt that anything could be found as a fossil. Given they do not realy have a body that leaves a great fossil do they? But looking at your other uploads (about the prehistory) you are obviously a way better judge about that then I'm.
@BugsandBiology Jackson , is that right , i hate not addressing you correctly , it's rude , yes, not any rectangle is square , I was being , obtuse , but you made me laugh with your Hubris,(as in the modern vernacular. a humorous aside easily dismissed its now a term of endearment) and a pet hate , completely unrelated, Quadrilateral,, this is why soft tissue injury is rediculous, the lack of lateral fibre growth , run up stairs budding Footballing Biologists, and on another digression , or is it , Trapezoidal , I'm computer illiterate, and I did try to find out but , is this Web employing the same principles as say the Trapezium,soz , Ric ,
Oh look I left in another blooper. That’s what I get for editing while half asleep, I suppose.
We all make mistakes
What blooper ? Didn't notice any , Maybe because i was half a sleep too listening .😄
I repeated a line
@@BugsandBiology I thought you were talking about the music being quiet. In spite of all of that, I quite enjoy your work. I was quite into insects and other arthropods when I was a kid. I enjoyed snakes and lizards as well.
The music volume is a weird thing to balance. It often turns out louder in the finished result than it sounded during editing, leading me to err on the side of caution when adding it to a video. Especially since I've previously received comments stating the music was too loud/distracting.
Deinopidae are just the coolest! Glad they got the time to shine in their own video :)
I wish this spiders got more attention =( such a unique hunting method and a face that makes me only think of the sound Twhomps make in Mario 😂
how does the spider know how to do something like this?i've always wondered how a complex hunting mechanism like this evolves... amazing!!
I mean just evolution and need.
They have really sensitive eyes so they cannot hunt during the day, or function at all during the day (you will see then hidden under leaves in the dark not moving until night)
So if the spider is going to not move it needs a hunting style that fits that.
And unlike orb weavers who's eyes don't melt in the sun, net casters can't exactly just make a Web in broad daylight and stay there and wait for food to come, as their eyes are way too sensitive for that.
So there only real options are being an ambush predator, and giving their frame they can't be a like a wolf spider, or a tarantula, or a huntsman where they rely on speed and size to catch prey, because well net casters are both really small, and also not particularly strong for their size (really thin spindly legs compared to say a wolf spiders extremely strong front legs
Then you factor in that their webs aren't sticky but wooly, and suddenly you have a spider that needs to stay still and wait patiently for its prey to stand a chance.
And if you are going to hunt by staying still the entire time, it makes sense to have some kinda trap to capture food, so nets end up being the easiest solution for these spiders.
Especially when you consider they live in Australia, a country that is really rough for smaller spiders given that there's so many bigger spiders like huntmans that want nothing more than to eat smaller spiders.
Basically some baby spiders try using a net and it ends up being successful so the babies that made nets continue to procreate whereas the items don't, and that eventually leads ro their body shifting to maximise the efficiency of the style of hunting that worke
Tldr: it's mostly just due to environment and their biology, a weak spider with long limbs, and great eyesight that's useless during the day.
@@lunaeons45 ahh, thank you, makes sense!!
This was a fantastic video Jackson, no idea why the algorithm isn’t showing this to your spider people. I really enjoy your presentation style, the casual delivery of your staggering amount of knowledge and your dry humor make for a great combo. Net casting spiders are a group I really need to see, it’s a dream of mine to film the full sequence of them catching a bug in the net. Great stuff man!
Glad you enjoyed! I partially suspect that it’s because net-casters aren’t great for thumbnails, since they look more or less like a bundle of twigs.
@BugsandBiology they are amazing for thumbnails if you show-off their eyes.
But yeah the most eye catching part about them is the face, and if you dint notice the face they just look boring.
It's my favourite spider by far tho because of the face, just so unique and beautiful
I have major arachnophobia and thus begins me desensitization journey
Best of luck!
Well done, Jackson. My favourite spider features, yet again, in one of your videos.
Yeah figured it was about time I made a video focused on them
I found these incredibly fascinating but terrifying to look at as a small kid (and this is coming from someone who has never been afraid of spiders at any point), mostly because of those eyes.
They do have a strangely unsettling appearance beyond the normal spider features. Both the eyes and the odd, twiggy shape.
1:05 i found a huntsman a few days ago with 5 legs, i felt sorry for the guy so i put him in my terrarium, 2 days ago he molted and now has all his legs back, ill keep him for a while until hes at full strength then release him back. Pretty cool, it can regrow all its missing legs at once
Have you considered crowdfunding a really good camera? It would be to the benefit of everyone
I second this - the writing and narration are excellent.
A stabilizing rig and solid camera is something I’d donate to to see more of this.
I’d probably sooner invest in a better microphone setup. I’ve always felt my audio/narration is a little subpar.
I don’t find it that way at all it has this crisp old school documentary sound that really goes with the nature of what you’re filming.
That’s just my take.
Love the work please don’t stop.
Much appreciated! That is the style I tend to aim for, with a strong focus on storytelling, especially in videos that are less information-heavy.
As for a better camera, well, maybe. My recent TH-cam earnings alone could probably pay for one, but at the same time, I'm not really in a position to be spending a large sum of money on new equipment when my current phone camera is perfectly useful in most situations.
@@BugsandBiology they never said you should pay for it your self, they ment with help from others. Every body benefits from you having a better camera, not just you.
Shame the algorithm favours clickbait videos rather than yours. Always a pleasure to watch your videos
Found this channel in a comment section and haven’t left yet thank you
Cheers! Hope you enjoy your stay
I've been to Melbourne & Sydney while wishing to visit Queensland. After watching your footages on Aussie spiders & centipedes, my wish has just been stronger.
Btw, your new spider icon is so cool, but I still miss the old centipede one! Perhaps, I'm a centipede guy, more so than as a spider one!
Lovely spider-did I read somewhere that they drop a poop as a target spot to help with accuracy when capturing prey? Your videos/narration are top notch👍
"Why it's called that is.... Why it's called that." *rolls credits*
Naming a genus must be a big honor, and I recall species named after pokemon like charizard or mewtwo, but "aha, ha" must be the single weirdest name.
But net casting spiders are very cool, got to love the diversity of ways arthropods hunt, it's so much more varied than "I am spider and therefore sit in my web and do nothing else"
That feeling of powerlessness when seeing an obvious blooper after the video has already been uploaded is something else.
@BugsandBiology it gives your videos character! 😆
Loved this. I'm fascinated by these spiders, and sad that we don't have them here.
They really are super intriguing creatures. The way they hunt has easily got to be one of the most unique out of any spider, and seeing them construct their nets in real life is just something else.
I first heard the net cast from monster bug wars, I first watcjed it when I was seven and the close ups on the spider's eyes scared me
I've just found your channel a couple of weeks ago and you're talking about my favorite spider!! I feel very lucky :) thank you
Well that's some great timing, isn't it? Glad you enjoyed!
Awesome video as always, though that one net casting spider near the end was like ‘do you mind! I’m trying to make my net here!’ Lol
Haha, true. I never noticed how the spider paused momentarily as if to say “do you mind?”
Great channel, really enjoyed it
Very interesting ,and extremely informative .
If you could afford it, would you travel to Florida & search for banana spiders?
Excellent content. Subbed
Informative video 👍🕷️
Why do people wanna go to the outer space to find aliens when we already have a collection of fascinating oddly-behaving animals on our planet?
Bro. Aha ha such a Strange name for a wasp😭 also love the vid Jackson, looks great! Keep up the work!
It felt weird saying that name unironically. Like, no, it's not a meme, someone genuinely described a wasp under that name.
@@BugsandBiology lmao. There are a lot of animals with names that'll give you weird looks. Just for note. Idiosoma nigrum is definitely one that makes people think twice bout what I've just said lol
What an amazing spider!
They really are! I never get sick of seeing them.
Nice! Is there any update on the sales website?
I'll be honest, I've completely forgotten about that
@@BugsandBiology Come on! I really want some H. nigrigularis slings!!!
Could this channel count as a "sales website"?
@@BugsandBiology Not really, cuz I can't buy any slings from you
Wait, they actually eat their own eyes? (Well, the retinas, at least) That’s interesting.
Maybe idk what im on about but whenever i see vidoes of this spider at night i always worry that pointing the flashlight at it has burned its eyes out :(
I knew a little about those types of spiders, but I didn’t know their hunting details or how they are able to destroy and regenerate tissues so easily. They are having something quite similar to tool use actually. After all, araneomorph diversity is very high. I mostly know about tarantulas, a few larger true spiders, scorpions, and myriapods. Now I need to look if those spiders exist in Europe. They are quite fascinating.
I don't believe they're in Europe, but I could definitely be mistaken. Overseas species aren't exactly my forte.
@@BugsandBiology I tried to look it up, but probably they aren’t in Europe.
I wanna see a spider eat it's own eyes! Lol
Ogre faced spider or Net casting spider, and once I heard someone called it a sick spider for some reason.
That's fascinating that they digest their retinas to deal with daylight. Do you know if that's unique to subrufa, or is that common for the genus or even family?
Both Deinopis and Asianopis do this. Don’t believe Menneus do though.
Every time I I approach a spider it seems to hiss at me. Well big desert spiders camel or something like. I literally will go out another door to leave the house. Take whatever u want spider 🕷️ ✌🏼:))
love those Spiders😁
Hello Bugs and Biology! There's this one channel on TH-cam I feel like you should make a video about, that is MAD SCIENCEen, you'll understand why.
Man seems like Coyotes still up and your down
Said it before, and I’ll say it again. I’d take sharing accurate information to a small audience over misleading millions of viewers any day.
I mean 1 does it for a full time job, and the other does it for a hobby.
Like yeah you would expect the person doing it as a full time job, marketing to kids would do better than someone doing it as a hobby marketed towards other people in the hobby
@@lunaeons45 yeah this is also the same guy who likes to try and say everything coyote does is a scam basically, so I could careless man, dudes just butthurt
I don't want to hear you say another word about the beasts of the outback, until you present us with PROOF that you have a license to collect sebastians for research and educational purposes
Oh no, I've been exposed. Apology video incoming.
"funnel website," "funnel of spider," and "funnel up spider's pets" were all pretty plainly just some translator (auto-correct?) giving him fits when trying to write "funnel web spider," but I don't even know what "sebastians" was trying to be
it is also known as an ogre faced spider?
Yeah that’s a fairly common name for them
@@BugsandBiology thank you i was just checking
What a beautifull creature!! So ingenious to hunt like that. It realy makes me wonder... How could something so ingenious like that evolve... It can not can it?? It must have some sort of intelligent design...
I am not religious but like I said, it makes me wonder about the natural wonders on this beautifull planet of ours...
Sorry I was clearly late with this comment. Sorry @liviviv
I can definitely see something like that evolving through incremental steps with increasing complexity, but I’m not sure how much research has been done regarding the evolution of Deinopids.
@@BugsandBiology I obvious don't know either but I also think that it would be difficult to find anything of their predecesors. I doubt that anything could be found as a fossil. Given they do not realy have a body that leaves a great fossil do they?
But looking at your other uploads (about the prehistory) you are obviously a way better judge about that then I'm.
Could be a square Web,, a rectangle is a square , aha ha ,
Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. But really the web is more trapezoidal. Maybe I should’ve just said quadrilateral.
@BugsandBiology Bugz , ur a gag , and indeed , should have pre-empted that , your #1 top value , Ric
@BugsandBiology Jackson , is that right , i hate not addressing you correctly , it's rude , yes, not any rectangle is square , I was being , obtuse , but you made me laugh with your Hubris,(as in the modern vernacular. a humorous aside easily dismissed its now a term of endearment) and a pet hate , completely unrelated, Quadrilateral,, this is why soft tissue injury is rediculous, the lack of lateral fibre growth , run up stairs budding Footballing Biologists, and on another digression , or is it , Trapezoidal , I'm computer illiterate, and I did try to find out but , is this Web employing the same principles as say the Trapezium,soz , Ric ,
Just when you think spiders can't get any more amazing, along come these guys!
Yep! If twig-spiders with gigantic eyes weren't interesting enough, let's give them a fishing net as well...
What's going on with your recent videos TH-cam won't recommend or notify me of them
The algorithm is weird. That’s all I can say…