tnuckels
Enlightened
Spider's eyes seem to reflect light more like cat's eyes, maybe something to do with their superior night vision, but don't appear as forgiving as a retroflective street marker. It seems the farther away from your eyes that you hold your light, the greater the angle back to your own eyes, the less bright the glint appears in their eyes, and the harder it is to see and find them.
Dunu how it works, just that it does, and my kids get a big kick out of it. We can find literally hundreds of spiders in our yard and shrubs this way … its kinda creepy to actually see how many there are out there, that you're blissfully wading through all the time. What if they got tired of being constantly stepped on, joined forces into a single body and mind, with thousands of tiny glittering eyes, all bound together by that stronger than steel silk of theirs, and their collective hatred for mankind …
BTW, this works a lot better when it's dry out, otherwise you'll see reflections off each dewdrop and think the spiders have landed an expeditionary force on your lawn. Surprisingly, you can still find spiders under these conditions, it's just harder when they've called down the rains … so they can mount their attack … under cover of so many decoys …
Dunu how it works, just that it does, and my kids get a big kick out of it. We can find literally hundreds of spiders in our yard and shrubs this way … its kinda creepy to actually see how many there are out there, that you're blissfully wading through all the time. What if they got tired of being constantly stepped on, joined forces into a single body and mind, with thousands of tiny glittering eyes, all bound together by that stronger than steel silk of theirs, and their collective hatred for mankind …
BTW, this works a lot better when it's dry out, otherwise you'll see reflections off each dewdrop and think the spiders have landed an expeditionary force on your lawn. Surprisingly, you can still find spiders under these conditions, it's just harder when they've called down the rains … so they can mount their attack … under cover of so many decoys …