Garden Spider Wraps Grasshopper Prey Extremely Fast

A black and yellow garden spider wraps up a small grasshopper caught in her web.

Sensing the movement, she races down to the trapped insect and uses her silk, nature’s saran wrap, to package the morsel for later eating just like mom used to do when preparing your lunch. Watch her give it a venomous bite before heading back up to await another visitor. The silk is made of protein – it is stronger by weight than any man-made material. Yet, the spider can recycle it simply by eating and re-spinning it.

Filmed at the Butterfly Pavilion in Colorado. The Butterfly Pavilion exists to foster an appreciation of invertebrates by educating the public about the need to protect and care for threatened habitats globally while conducting research for solutions in invertebrate conservation.

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[smortboi]

Why can’t the spider living in my bathroom be this effective at taking out the roaches and flie in our house? Ima have to assign it a quota, or let it feel the wrath of my arachnophobia

[cartoonmaster]

Once I saw a spider in a bathroom window in my house. I ran to get bug spray, and was about to kill it...
But then I saw it wrapping up a fly. I never thought I'd see that in my life, and honestly, no one likes to be interrupted when making dinner. So, I just watched in fascination as it continued to prepare it's meal. When it finished, I simply walked out the bathroom and put the spray away. You get to live another day to eat, interesting little spider. Appreciate it.

[flargarbason]

I believe spiders are one of the most interesting, and almost evolutionarily perfect creature. They wait for prey to fall into its trap and get stuck, then, it wraps it in more silk to ensure it can’t escape, while keeping it’s distance with its long legs to ensure the prey can’t attack back, and to boot, it injects venom into the prey, and sticks it on it’s web like putting a to-go box in the freezer

[kenxiong]

Me: wow so neat and delicate

*This footage was slowed down to 120 frames per second*
Wait what!?

[beanerguys]

The bug that was being wrapped was like: : " Michael dont leave me here! *cough* Michael! MICHAEL!!!! HELP ME!"

[davehill]

She is busy and quick! Once the prey gets wrapped there is no getting away.

[ricowinterhaven]

It’s like a bed and breakfast. The spider weaves you a bed, tucks you in, then you’re her breakfast.

[christopherkeller]

When I was a little kid, before I had video games or anything like that, I would find these in the back yard and go find bugs to throw in the web. I know I’m not the only one 😂

[verastaki]

Shrink wraps very quickly! To preserve the food, while the food is suffocating and trying to live, but the 🕷️ spider says no!

[TheAtheist_NextDoor]

Some days you’re the spider, some days you’re the grasshopper

[nickkoffiezwartaub]

Oké guys that was a great shot, let's wrap this up.

[MixedCompany]

Hey there! There goes a spider, man!😁

[LetocoSpring]

I found today in garden and its just too fast and amazing her art work, thank u for ur video

[Chubzdoomer]

Fixed her up a nice little grasshopper burrito.

[cfo_lorcastro]

I need that thing to roll my blunts perfect every time😂

[angellirazan]

How fast can u wrap gifts?
Spida:Yes!

[frankgordonsmith]

its like one of those airport machines which wraps your baggage in plastic film to keep it safe.

[ardalla]

Thank you for tucking me in. I will sleep now.

[NikeBoyAmir]

This wouldn’t be a bad call of duty music soundtrack tbh lol

[hoboringmaster]

I the same/similar spider. The web was practically the same. I put a locust/grasshopper. Took a while but he now feasting on it. 2-3x’s bigger too