Saturday, 27 March 2004

Life imitates code?

At Technorati, I've been writing 'spiders' - little bits of code that scuttle over the web indexing pages when roused. We normally have hundreds running around at once. So I was interested to see these spider hatchlings in the garden on Thursday, swarming over a web, trying to make sense of it.

Big picture of baby spider cluster

3 comments:

  1. I have some of these in my garden they clump together and look like a piece of moss and then every now and then they all separate and then clump back together. Does anyone know what they are?

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  2. I just found these as well! I would love to know what they are called.

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  3. http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo111435.htm

    Araneus diadematus? I'm not sure how closely spiderlings resemble one another...

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