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> Webs deformed instantly when jolted with static from flies, aphids, honeybees, and even water droplets. Spiders caught charged insects more easily.

This is all so fascinating!



There was an electric/bug Pokémon ensembling an spider, now I know why.

https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Galvantula_(Pok%C3...

Yes, Pokémon has tons of real life weird biologycs inside. Such as that volcano snail, (Slugma/Magcargo) which exists IRL:

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-sc...


Your pokemon example predates any of this research by a few years and so it certainly wouldn't have been known by the creators. It's a coincidence.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140114113339.h...


Yeah, that's after the pokemon you mentioned debuted. You're just proving my point.




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