The Electric Flight of Spiders
I'm loving all these spider articles that have cropped up on hacker news and elsewhere [0]-[4].<p>I used to be deathly afraid of spiders, but all these articles and videos over the years have eliminated my fear of them. I like having some around.<p>[0]: The extraordinary life and death of the world's oldest known spider -  <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16992596" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16992596</a><p>[1]: Spiders eat an astronomical amount of insects - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15887468" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15887468</a><p>[2]: How spiders fly - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398383" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398383</a><p>[3]: How I ended up with pet jumping spiders - <a href="https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/how-i-ended-up-with-pet-jumping-spiders-187d70a3e296" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/how-i-ended-up-with-pet-ju...</a><p>[4]: Lucas the spider - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/joshuaslice" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/joshuaslice</a>