Spiders hate each other?

[TransformerRobot]

I was just watching this show "Nature's Secrets", they were talking about the powerful silk that spiders make, and it said that we couldn't put spiders together in a farm to mass produce their silk because "spiders hate each other." it said.

 

Do spiders really hate each other? As in automatically when they see each other?

[Phi for All]

Most are solitary, ambush hunters. They see each other as rivals, or just lunch.

 

There are spiders that colonize, but I'm not sure the prolific silk-spinners are that cooperative.

[TransformerRobot]

Most are solitary, ambush hunters. They see each other as rivals, or just lunch.

 

There are spiders that colonize, but I'm not sure the prolific silk-spinners are that cooperative.

 

Which spiders do you know of are colonial?

[Phi for All]

I remember Charles Darwin wrote about some rainforest species that colonized, and I think most of the ones that cooperate are from tropical climates, but don't quote me on that. I don't remember what species they were.

[Moontanman]

Which spiders do you know of are colonial?

 

Ask and ye shall receive..

 

 

http://frank.itlab.us/photo_essays/papers/spider_defense_early_warning.pdf

[ewmon]

IIRC, jumping spiders tolerate each other during encounters, though keeping their distance, and they even hibernate "together" over winter.