As spooky season approaches, many people are starting to break out the fall and Halloween decor. And while that often entails throwing up a few festive pumpkins and changing leaves, it can also involve putting up some fake spider webs for a more haunted effect.
For one woman, that last part was completed for her by her friendly neighborhood spider, who built an elaborate web near her Ring camera. Emily shared her Ring footage in a Threads post, where it quickly went viral.
Now, the timelapse clip is making the rounds online, and people are weighing in on everything from the spider’s web-building skills to how exhausting it must be to complete such an intricate design.
Hopefully, the web is located in an out-of-the-way place so that Emily won’t disturb it now that it’s completed, both so that the spider can have some time to enjoy all of its hard work and so that she can use it as some built-in holiday decor.
Time-Lapse Footage of the Web Shows the Spider’s Process
View on Threads
If you don’t suffer from arachnophobia, then you’re probably just a little bit mesmerized by the video shared by Ring on Threads. That’s because the night vision clip shows what appears to be an orb-weaver spider spinning a massive web right in front of the camera.
You can see just how many passes the spider has to make to complete the web, laying the framework and then working its way through each part of the web to connect all the pieces.
People Were Floored by the Footage
A lot of people enjoyed watching the spider at work. “I’m mesmerized,” one person wrote after watching the clip.
“At the end, it looks like the spider took a deep breath and said, ‘my home renovation is done,'” another added.
Then there were those who dropped some pretty punny jokes about the video, including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) account, which commented, “Miss Charlotte said this is a web cam now.”
Spider Webs Can Be Constructed Quickly
If you’ve ever been shocked to walk through a spider web on your way in or out of your house, then you know just how quickly some spiders can put them up. For example, orb-weavers (the spider that appears to be in the Ring footage) can complete their web in about 30 minutes to an hour, according to Animals A to Z.
Meanwhile, spiders like Darwin’s bark spider can take a little bit longer, since they produce the largest webs of any spider in the world. According to Animals A to Z, these types of spiders are also part of the orb-weaver family, but they can build elaborate webs that measure up to 30 square feet!
Imagine getting surprised while walking through that web late at night!
Fortunately, the website notes that the web size isn’t an indicator of how large the spiders get, and they are still only about an inch long.