Spiders building webs on deer antlers

Originally published at: Spiders building webs on deer antlers - Boing Boing

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Made me think of Jagermeister.

Natural example of work smarter, not harder.

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I approve, if only because this positioning of the web drastically cuts down on the odds of me stumbling into the web face first and looking like a lunatic as I swat at the air in alarm.

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going by the accompanying front-page image, TIL generative AI is also crap at drawing spiderwebs!

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First thing that came to mind for me was the title character in the Dr. Seuss story Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, whose antlers become increasingly crowded with smaller animals taking advantage of his hospitality.

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Came here to post Thidwick.

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Unless it’s deer mating season. Then competing male antlers will be ripping up your work every half hour.

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Except that deer have already affected the environments where spiders often build webs – by eating them.

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