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What Nature Still Can Teach Us
This spider’s web is visible for no more than 3–5 minutes a day.
All but for a few minutes a day, three-to-five at most, Nature has a way of making this spider’s web invisible. I can stand in front of it, less than three feet away, and not see a single thing most of the day.
And then somewhere between 0845 and 0848, as the sun rises in the east, the penetrating light along the forest floor finds this web, and for those few minutes, one can hardly believe that it’s there.
Because a moment before, it was not. Rather, one could not see it.
Spiders have developed an amazing way of using stealth to capture their food.
Watch the video.
This is a time-lapse, with a couple edits for movement of the camera for different angles.
And then, before you know it, the web becomes invisible again.
Perhaps, if we were not devoting so much time to new technologies, mankind could learn a few things by returning to Nature. She has much to tell us, and we’re not listening very well, now are we?
