Spider Web Time-Lapse | Earth Unplugged

We filmed a garden orb web spider building their amazing spider web in this time lapse as well as slow motion footage as they capture their first prey with it!
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[@patmacalister]

You forgot the part where I drive into it on my bicycle.

[@sportergaming8631]

Ya and stepped on it multiple times

[@ytcarol]

+PatMacalister Best comment!

[@NWforager]

and look like a crazy person flailing at invisible enemies

[@lanceyyin3262]

NWforager XDDDDDDDDD 😆 😂

[@m.j.mbrooks1859]

NWforager my dad is the perfect height for walking into cobwebs and spider webs. And he does it every single time. He hates it because his hair is receded from the front and his scalp is super sensitive and he has just enough hair for the sticky threads to get caught into his hair. It makes me laugh every time. I personally am terrified of spiders, particularly the big ass wolf ones. If they're tiny and on a web far away from me, And stay ON that web we're cool. And while I feel bad to think of how their webs get wrecked by bicycles and people passing through, sometimes I gotta wonder what the hell the spider was thinking when it comes to residency location choices. Like one time there was huge ass spider web smack in the middle of the front door, with part of it on the door handle. Yeah that location was gone in two seconds. Like, come on now spider, DAMN.

[@Piorn]

Add some sillouettes of swimming women and you've got yourself a James Bond Intro.

[@RisinT96]

lol my exact thoughts

[@neonigromante9019]

:V haha

[@MsDinoGal]

I had the same thought!

[@alexojideagu]

James Bond new Movie: Ohhhh it's the Spiders WEEEEEEEEBBBBB don't get pulled into the Spiders WEEEEEEEEEBBBBBB......you only have one chance to escape......sung in Adele's voice

[@sickofthebulldodo1461]

Imagine having to go through this every time you're hungry and the chance of some body destroying it in a millisecond the second you finish it

[@-cosmicrogue-]

Fascinating! Great footage and superb music choice. Sometimes we all need to slow down and appreciate the delicate beauty of a spider web.

[@bbcearth]

Excellent video guys! It must have taken serious patience to capture this web building behaviour.

[@timodjav8214]

Are you complementing your own channel?

[@AureliusR]

+Just a guy on KZbin No, this is BBC Earth Unplugged.

[@timodjav8214]

Ok

[@Model_BT-7274]

yeah but its still bbc

[@Model_BT-7274]

yeah but its still bbc

[@therandomYT69]

The way she just does everything to perfection with great precision and consistency

[@auxentios9591]

Spiders are real artists!

[@Pixelements]

Now I feel bad destroying their webs :(

[@btuck2513]

+Pixelements I don't, cause ya know, they're spiders.

[@antdx316]

They actually stop the bugs that bite people.

[@alexandernorris9890]

Pixelements Well you have to do it... Even if it's in front of your front door. Edit: I changed my mind.

[@jendoi]

and were assholes.. because assholes are freaked out of spiders saying they dont deserve to exist..

[@ChildofGodforevr]

Pixelements as u should.

[@AdeptusSteve]

beautiful! magnificent! gorgeous! superb!

[@earthunplugged]

+Stefan Ehrenhaus Thanks Stefan!

[@notlun]

+Stefan Ehrenhaus So many adjectives.

[@qirodraws]

Sounds like what mettaton would say

[@yellya]

Yep mettaton would say that from undertale

[@skyrue5991]

+Wolf Gal lol yeah about himself

[@Dukefrukem]

5 flies did not like this video

[@rickyfitina7350]

😂😂😂

[@techmaniac43]

Actually, 47 flies 😂😂😂

[@ChildofGodforevr]

Dukefrukem I lol a lil too much at this comment

[@siadoors7388]

Lol

[@shuliu4804]

Onehunderdandfortyseven

[@parakidd]

As an arachnophobe, I found this video extremely satisfying. Because of my fear of spiders, and being more or less a naturalist, instead of killing them out of fear (not hate because I don't hate them just because I fear them) I have spent my time over the years watching and observing spiders (the web weaving kind, especially banana/azealia/golden web weaver spiders since they're most common in the area here (Southern Alabama), but there are just some things you just can't see or notice without a time lapse. About a month ago, I intentionally put a small stick an a banana spider's web just to watch how it would take it out; I wasn't trying to mean or harmful, I simply wanted to learn and the only way I could was to "interact". As I watched the spider slowly remove the web from the stick, I became curious on what makes spiders choose where to spin their webs, and is there a thought process behind the designs before they begin weaving or is all instinctual? Though this video didn't answer either question because that's something you'd have to more or less get in the spider's head to truly know, it did show me how the webs them selves were constructed. Regardless of me fears, spiders are amazing creatures. I just hope I don't have nightmares tonight after having watched this video lol.

[@Janetchen1304]

12 flies and 3 moths disliked this video.

[@banjobill8420]

This is incredible. It's the little stuff in life, like the detail and how much effort she puts into making the web and or how bumblebees feed on pollen that make life interesting.

[@alyankfreak]

These are the kinds of videos that I look up when I get high. Don't regret it one bit. Now I must think more about admiring every web I see.

[@bval6478]

The Wayward Soul same

[@klpayton]

I'm high now!

[@Cnote39legend]

Yeah I'm high and looking this up...

[@Marcel-vz7vp]

🤢

[@penguin6385]

I loved the fact that the sticky silk is thicker and can easily be seen by the naked eyes, while the frames is thinner and hard to see if it wasn't for the lights refracting from the webs, great art reference

[@1964Yojimbo]

geez!! I can't believe you cut away at the best part! When she stings the victim and wraps them up,then repairs the web again.

[@crazycriz5000]

This is just a thing of beauty. I could watch a spider do this all day, no matter how long it takes.

[@pena8002]

I exploded with tears... God is magnificent. Glorious. How can anyone deny the intelligence here?? Who’s with me?

[@cryb0rg]

It's so easy to deny. Infact, its 100x more deep, mindblowing and fulfilling when you begin to wrap your head around the TRUE god that is nature itself; Existence. Unfathomable complexity that supercedes our feeble concepts of intelligence. Think harder and longer and deeper than stopping at "god" when you brush against something you can't understand or that inspires awe within you.

[@Haikuhiaku]

Just outstanding. As my 7yo son said...it's dancing a beautiful dance. *Applause*

[@keisha.dechaca]

I am here because earlier today i watched a spider at my outdoor kitchen strengthening its web by going over the initial framework. I got curious. Fascinating.

[@smartmoneyadvisor_]

That was perfection. I don't understand how this doesn't have over a million views

[@abbydubreuil6919]

The way she rips the threads to get the fly more entangled and then has to make sure she still has a grip on the web while tying to subdue the fly rips up a lot of web possibly the integrity of the whole structure and how it’s designed to work when she tightens everything taut from the middle. makes me think they’re meant to be single use products only so maybe we don’t have to worry so much about bumping into them 😊 It reminded me of me of how my husband yanks up when he feels a fish on his line. Then has to hang on to the rod while trying to reel it in

[@Bastacat]

Okay,this was genuinely amazing.

[@keatoncw]

Pretend you're the fly.. Imagine the terror of being stuck while a huge 8-legged, 8-eyed, hairy thing with two fangs closes in on you. Also, flies experience time much slower than humans, so it's all in slow motion.

[@kotykinn2114]

But flies lack the ability to feel pain or fear in the way we do. Ask an endomologist

[@crittert7828]

Beautiful. How does she repair the web? Do you have a video of that? 🎈

[@NOUSERNAMESLEFTFUUCK]

+Critter T Every night she eats her web and makes a new one.

[@FlyingBanana78]

Yeah the web is built daily only thing they tend to keep up unless it breaks is the starting support strands typically a Y shape. Used to have one that lived on my back balcony and would love to watch it. Helped too eating fruit flies from the apple trees.

[@sikisiki7458]

FlyingBanana that spider is a Bad ass

[@williamjames1396]

I’ve found 20 just in my backyard and their huge webs are their by night and gone by day

[@christopheronline7244]

THE BEST spider video of ANY kind that I have EVER seen!!!

[@animetanimater4505]

I couldn't go through this vid without cringing or freaking out

[@hildrethbabyy]

this is beautiful. now i feel bad if i mess up little spider's hard work

[@apriljones1013]

I have formed a new opinion: spiders are badass as hell.

[@jahill7965]

She is called a Golden Orb spider. Love the video.

[@richardduncan2677]

have witnessed a garden orb spin her web with out a time-lapse and it was one of the most spectacular thing i have ever seen

[@matthelton6637]

These spiders make some of the largest and most numerous webs I've ever seen.

[@AquaGalaxyArt]

Ah I love orb spiders! I found one of the same species in my front yard last year. Their webs are the neatest

[@ww3k]

Nature is spectacular.

[@Papabogs1020]

love to watch building their webs since childhood days...

[@dlee645]

I can hear the fly screaming, "Help me! Help meeee!"

[@gabrieltogan6891]

This... does put a smile on my face

[@NoLifeButMyOwn]

Beautiful performance, m'lady. Beautiful. Now we wait.

[@kit9016]

Kind of hypnotic watching it build its web.

[@ytcarol]

Two words: Intelligent Design

[@deathcraft2299]

I always used to destroy webs and think it is fun but this video changed it this is pure hard work and beauty

[@followthepolo2704]

I just cannot understand how nature and evolution has worked perfectly i to an outstanding creature capable of having such a super power like this, I mean just imagine to be able of producing a substance in your body that is resistant, flexible, can be sticky or not sticky, it’s basically limitless, and its the way you can catch food, travel, protect you, etc, etc

[@tkb1033]

Step into my parlor said the spider to the fly

[@sydneymartin112]

Honestly, I don't like spiders but this was beautiful! I didn't know how beautiful and how much time goes into their webs, but I see it is beautiful and intricate! Absolutely awesome! :)

[@JaneArtsyOtternutKirkwood]

This is why spiders are such amazing beasties!

[@tbtran1RICH1]

How can something like a spider create something so intricate and meticulous?

[@orvonton7830]

i cant be the only one that wants to see the actual raw footage of the whole web making process yet there is no one on the internet that isn't making it into a time lapse. someone needs to make a whole channel just based on spiders building their webs from start to finish the whole process that would blow up i know it might sound silly at first like who would really want to see the whole process and actually sit and watch it well ill tell you who... ALOT OF PEOPLE

[@Thecocotiel]

This time lapse is amazing! I love spiders sm

[@poptaku]

Work of true art!

[@reubensenft1522]

Maybe it's just the sick tunes, but at 1:48 I feel like I'm watching a spider weave a silk LP record.

[@MorganAriel]

*Fly has left the chat*

[@unvergebeneid]

I really don't know how spiders do all that waiting without even having podcasts to listen to. But maybe I'm anthropomorphizing here...

[@elusive7815]

I've been letting 1 lives on my porch for the past week and feeding her when I can watching their daily habits is amazing especially when they clean their webs

[@Latifalnasir]

so happy it got to eat lol i was like please dont take its web down after all that hard work

[@afriherpphoto7924]

Some species of Araneidae creates a "stabilimentum"(thick layer of white silk in zig zag pattern) through the hub which makes the web more visible and thought to stiffen or stabilize it

[@issa9322]

Today..I've learned to respect spiders a little more. And fear them less.

[@gillianwibbs446]

This goes hard

[@tamistar13]

Jumping spiders are actually cute

[@jukkakoponen5492]

Praised be the evolution! What a wonderful designer!

[@stevieraygenoch2928]

This was very satisfying

[@Master_Therion]

Looks like old Shelob's been having a bit of fun.

[@hennarachnida]

Ohmygod she made absolutely amazing work!

[@stevieraygenoch2928]

This video is so beautifull

[@kait5029]

Spiders are so cool oml

[@MsBoruzele]

I'm watching second spider creating natural mosquito screen around my porch... Beautiful view, even though I don't realy like spiders...

[@sakthivelanr]

So did anyone notice that the frame spiral was built starting from the centre but the sticky web was built starting from the circumference. This is obvious to a human, but with a tiny speck size brain, that's genius !. I bet many humans still wonder why.

[@zamxit]

Mesmerising... what's the music called?

[@fgg4136]

zamxit a year has passed and still no one knows

[@checkmarkdatter1785]

Trip-hop. Not sure who this specific artist is but similar groups are Portishead, Handsome Boy Modeling School, etc.

[@lynnyuzuriha7875]

Feel The Sunshine by Sarah Wassal at the start of 1:41 ...there's two songs, I don't know what the first one from the beginning is

[@MusicalSavior23]

Sounds like "one" by Harry Nilsson

[@Alexsignal90]

Darude - sandstorm

[@hayatabdalla2986]

I regret destroying their webs

[@ted5514]

When y’all run into a web and get all grossed out and angry, think about how the spider must feel watching all that work go to waste...

[@theworthysoul]

Ikr

[@spoonman73]

We have these everywhere down here in Florida they are called Orbweavers but we used to call them banana spiders when we were kids. They look scary but are not dangerous. Now, all the Black Widows on the other hand...

[@Timinator62]

Awesome, has anybody tried playing different music and see what the spider builds?

[@TheConnor12500]

Life on this planet is so amazing. Oh how we must preserve and cherish the pale blue dot that is our world

[@user-sq9gk4zn2c]

i feel that the spider web,is a map of the universe

[@apeckx5090]

i think that a cool visual for future projects would be to keep the spider still in the frame and spin the web as if it were a record player

[@coldfire0007]

Flies have no respect for art

[@NJ-us8gp]

Hmm.. the music gives me the chilld

[@rolandosalonga3860]

Beauty.

[@winterthread]

Whenever I see a spider web like this it looks like a broken window

[@MrAnonymous878]

the music is real nice

[@jr.jorgesandoval9427]

Spiders with eccentric music Hugh

[@fibo12358]

NICE SOUND TRACK!

[@autistickid8905]

I’m watching this with a spider web on my window

[@WhyDaF]

So dope. I have some and I love em

[@dimeroll8018]

I destroyed a huge spider web the other day and came back and saw if it was still gone but it was perfectly built again. I never seen how the spider looked but the circle in the middle of the web where they rest was huge. So I'm guessing it was a huge spider.

[@TheUnchainedMind]

Great, great video! I would love to see more time lapse footage of insects building or taking apart and transporting matter. Termites working on some large wooden object instantly comes to mind. Keep up the great work!

[@-morrow]

This spider has a licence to kill

[@la2toronto789]

Ah so relaxing

[@terrence5796]

Gods design :)

[@HipsterEatinShark]

If you worship Garden Orb spiders, maybe.

[@cuatrofive]

who is the real engineer here

[@Guiiiiiiiiiiperez]

so cool! more spiders videos plss

[@erichoutman8803]

Wow so much work. Too bad my face ruins it all the time

[@dave5194]

Such careful symmetry.

[@HelenaMikas]

Terrific work ..I like spiders and their webs are amazing ...Wonderful *

[@lilsweezy71]

2k spiders liked, 90 insects disliked

[@Shizomania28]

Awesome Video but i missed the wrapping Procedure of the Spider.

[@chanio1179]

Now i can draw a spider web.

[@loyal_boom3702]

that dog be gone bro 😂😂

[@sneezycheeseloaf918]

This really just makes me regret breaking spiderwebs, purposefully or on accident. D:

[@F-Los]

incredible

[@hugeyuj8675]

a 2/4 with reach? now that's value