Akida Green

04/11/2025

Let's be more conscious on our responsibility towards environmental conservation.

04/11/2025

Things we must know.

🐞 Ladybug vs. Asian Ladybug 🐞

🔹 Common Ladybug
✔ Harmless
✔ Environmentally friendly
✔ Controls garden pests
✔ Lives outdoors

🔸 Asian Ladybug
⚠ Aggressive (can bite)
⚠ Harmful to dogs
⚠ Secretes a foul-smelling yellow liquid
⚠ Invades homes

🌿 Knowing the difference helps protect your garden and home.

04/11/2025

Let's be careful.

04/11/2025

A friendly environment is a home to every creation. Let's create an ecofriendly environment. Good morning.

03/11/2025

03/11/2025

seriously.

🪶 I'm a crane fly—not a giant mosquito 💛

• Don't kill me! I don't sting and I don't drink blood.
• I feed only on nectar and help pollinate flowers.
• The next time you see my long legs flying gently,
• leave me alone—I'm one of the good guys.

03/11/2025

03/11/2025

with nature everything has a reason.

A Spider’s Web Reveals the Art of Adaptation

For more than a century, scientists have been intrigued by the curious decorations some spiders add to their webs. These extra streaks and X-shaped patterns—known as stabilimenta—appear in at least 70 species. Their purpose isn’t immediately clear. Do they help the spider hide? Reflect sunlight? Warn birds away? Or perhaps attract more prey?

Recent research from the University of Kyoto may bring us closer to an answer. Dr. Takeshi Watanabe studied the Asian spider Octonoba sybotide and discovered that its web design changes depending on how hungry it is.

When the spider is well-fed, it builds a web with straight silk bands radiating from the center. But when food is scarce, the same spider weaves those bands into a spiral that winds inward. Tests showed that these spiral webs are far more sensitive to vibrations, allowing the spider to detect even the tiniest insect that touches the silk. The banded webs, in contrast, respond mainly to larger prey.

In short, a hungry spider tunes its web for opportunity—catch anything that moves. A satisfied spider can afford to wait for a bigger meal.

Far from challenging evolutionary theory, this behavior illustrates it. Over millions of years, natural selection has favored spiders that adjust their hunting tools to changing conditions. The ability to modify a web’s structure isn’t a sign of pre-programmed knowledge—it’s an elegant example of behavioral adaptation shaped by evolution.

What once seemed mysterious now looks like a story of ingenuity written into nature itself. Each thread reflects not design from above, but the patient work of evolution—refining survival, one silk strand at a time.