Spider Tech

Everything in our environment is astonishing and incredible!!! We are so familiar with the world, the world H’ gave us that we do not notice the miracles and wonders at every turn. Every creature and life form we see is a piece of technology light years ahead of our own. Society and businesses have begun to notice this, creating a whole new industry called biomimicry . It develops the newest gadgets by looking into nature. The wisdom gained there improves and advances our own technology. Imagine a mega company wants to employ a chemical engineer of applied science. This is someone who knows how to mix and apply chemicals to create new materials. The company oversees multiple products for different companies. For example, mixing pheromone chemicals to make a perfume designed for enticing people and then, in a completely different field they should be competent at devising and producing plastics to make the perfect nylon that is both elastic, strong and weaves into sophisticated designs. Lastly the company may oversee poison productions. Making specific poisons for specific tasks such as killing insects or types of toxic bacteria. This chemical engineer would need to be an expert in each field and an exemplary director as well to gather all the resources, build the production lines and produce the specific exotic chemicals needed. Yet, for all this human effort there is one small creature with a brain smaller than a pinhead who has within itself 3 complex chemical factories, it produces and uses each one for a completely different purpose. This creature is despised by most people and squished on site but if studied is a wonder of wonders. It is the spider! With a chemical factory at the end of its body it makes a liquid that on contact with air produces spider web. Spider web is stronger than steel at equal thickness, super flexible, stretches and recycable. It can be made thick, thin, dry or sticky and the spider with zero intelligence has the instinct built in to produce the most elaborate webs (each species in a different way) specifically to catch their target food. The webs are woven, sometimes sticky to catch food, sometimes not to wrap the prey or protect the eggs, made thin to catch aircurrents and thick to anchor a web to a branch. Each type can be reeaten and reused by the body of the spider.

Next at the head of the spider is another factory producing specific poisons designed to rapidly disable their prey. The poison is injected via the fangs and may helps with the digestion by liquifying the contents of the insects being caught. The injection system (fangs) is in itself a study of niflah.

Lastly, how does the spider entice insects to its web? It could goes days or weeks and never get a meal, slowly starving to death…...Well H’ of course has taken care of that too. Many species have a third chemical factory that produces a smell attractive to the insects. It is the bait that brings them to the web where they are caught! We must stop and appreciate the complexity that is happening here. This small animal with no intelligence, certainly no degree in chemical engineering somehow produces multiple complex chemicals that do vastly different things and have completely different agendas but all for the one great purpose of feeding the spider.

Now we can taste just a little of the wisdom that is packaged into a spider. Web productions, web design and usage, poison design, injections systems and application. Lastly, pheromone (smell) production specific to a type of insect are but just the beginning. We could look at the leg design, how they walk perfectly on sticky webs and how eight legs weave the webs. We could look at their eyes….why do they have eight eyes, why do they have different types of eyes and how do they see the food through those eyes. The wonders continue and become more incredible the more we learn. It is so clear that every aspect of the spider is designed for one major purpose and that all its parts are developed for one overall goal. To remove those pesky flies, cockroaches and mosquitoes! Next time you find a spider in your house, before you go squish! Stop and appreciate the incredible design and wonder that is imbued by H’ in the creature you are currently squishing…..