Rise of Evil
Rants03/01/09Tirinus Anybody familiar with the true menace of spiders has probably done some learning and found out more about their foe. Spiders are a solitary sort, hunting down and scaring off others from their territory, not even trusting each other. Truly more proof they are evil and malicious. The idea that they could band together and become even stronger is unthinkable, right?Wrong! Spiders have suddenly developed social instincts, coming together to create huge webs, in colonies of tens to tens of thousands strong, for the explicit purpose of catching larger prey than they could take on individually, which can be up to ten times the size of the spiders themselves.
This lair also acts as protection from predators, such as even larger spiders, small mammals or birds who would rightly wish rid of them, allowing the spiders to hide and perhaps even set up some sort of diabolical spider trap. Pure speculation on my part but given that there are Trapdoor spiders clearly the technology is not out of their reach.
Inside their nest the spiders all help in creating the structure, saving on energy and silk, and take care of each others' young, also protecting the eggs, moving them to the location with the most comfortable temperatures. Some social spiders respect the personal space of another, giving each a nest within the web and while an insect may bounce from one nest to another each spider captures roughly the same amount of prey.
While it would be all too easy to look upon the spiders and sense this might be a form of kindness and altruism it actually hides something even more evil! They share food and even take in spiders that are non-relative but of the same species, but once the food starts to become scarce, they eat the immigrant.
Beware, while the spiders would try to hide their evil by being social, they are always shown to be monsters and this development they would seek to become greater threats still!
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