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Hasn’t this been known for some time? Perhaps I’m confusing these spiders with ones that simply form wind sails.
You’ve heard of jumping spiders? Wait till you get a load of the new and improved flying spiders!
Pictured is a banana spider, shitloads of them around here. Those are not flying. Looks like this one is making the zig-zag thing some orb weavers make.
Cool fact! They’re also called Golden Orb Weavers because their webs shine gold when the sun hits right.
Bananaspider is quite ambiguous and refers to multiple spiders.
Golden Orb Weaver is the common name for Nephila (which this one is not), though often wrongly applied to Argiope.
This one is Argiope cf. aurantia, which has a bunch of common names including “golden garden spider”, but I prefer “black and yellow garden spider”.
because their webs shine gold when the sun hits right.
That is Nephila, not Argiope. Argiope are the ones with the zig-zag pattern, though.
How do the electric fields holds up the scientists?
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
Uhhh, magnets, I assume. I’ve gone through the physics courses, scrapped through intro to electrical engineering, and I still don’t get magnets. So we’ll just go with those.
I recently heard a lecture that claimed that "halos” or “auras” some people see are humans’ magnetic fields. I’d like to see some research on it.
You would probably find kirlian photography an interesting read.
Adrian Tchaikovsky warned us of this.
