Steatoda Bipunctata: Just Not In The Mood

HBK received an unusual request from a Danish film producer, who was working on a documentary on spiders - or Steatoda Bipunctata to be more precise.

His production team was in the process of trying to record the mating dance of steatoda bipunctata spiders, also known as false widow spiders.

They had already filmed the male spider rubbing his lower body against his upper body in order to attract the attention of the female but had severe problems trying to record ‘macro’-sound with their equipment. The sound energy was simply too low for a TV production microphone.

The team explored the phenomenon in an anechoic chamber, which for this purpose, was equipped with High-Sensitivity Microphone Type 4955 and our new PULSE LAN-XI Type 3161 with a direct monitoring output connected to an active speaker in the control room.