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points by the__alchemist 1 day ago | 0 comments

This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes.

So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable.

In addition to the sibling post, silkworms don't need individual living quarters.

Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.