Comment on TIL about spider number 16, the longest lived spider on record, and the decades long study by researcher Barbara York Main

Tyoda@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Could it have been multiple spiders moving into the same burrow after the first one died?

from the first reference in the article:

There is a high level of certainty that #16 lived for 43 years. Neither males nor females re-use the defunct burrow of another spider. Adult spiders do not relocate if their burrow is damaged, but repair their existing burrow.

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