Showing posts with label spiders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spiders. Show all posts

Friday, 19 February 2016

Sketchy Fact #112: Spider Stats

Statistically speaking (not in reality), you are always within three feet of a spider. Though spiders are scarce in some places, their insane densities in others (like English pastures - 842 spiders per square meter) more than make up for it.


Friday, 19 September 2014

Sketchy Fact #58: Caught in the Crosshairs

Spider silk was used to make the crosshairs in rifle sites until the 1960's because it is 40 times finer than human hair.