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With regard to the spider webs, an interesting hypothesis, but it seems you may be confounding wire spacing with presence of current. From your images, it is clear that the space between the top wire and the middle is larger than the middle to bottom. You can do the experiment to decide between these hypotheses---- for the current idea, all you need to do is turn the power off for a couple of months (smile). For testing the spacing, all you have to do is move that top wire down to make the spacing the same (smile, again). Or you could look for lines with equal spacing, but that would be less fun.

The equivalent spider in Florida is the golden silk spider, a really beautiful, impressive spider. You refer to the webs of the Joro as "he", but in fact, males of both the Joro and the golden silk spider are very small and occupy auxiliary webs near the female web. From there, males try to sneak in to mate the female without getting eaten. Risky business...

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Wow, this is very fascinating! Thank you for sharing and this is a subscribe for me!

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I'm signed in, yay! The tiny claws are amazing! I love this electrifying story, lol. The static charges are fascinating and I agree there's something up with them avoiding those top lines! I've never noticed before! Now I want to re-read about the Jori spiders.

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