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You might enjoy the book Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Or maybe A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.

Or maybe Web (1979) by John Wyndham.

Or maybe Charlotte's Web by E. B. White.

The perfect thread and comment to recommend this book!

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There are hundreds of species of social spiders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_spider

Wow, thank you! I obviously had no idea!

Although, in terms of numbers, according to that Wikipedia: “Several permutations of social behavior exist amongst the 23 species of spider considered to be quasi-social out of some 45,000 known species of spider”

Impressive that there's a wiki article on precisely that topic.

Not sure if you'd count it as social, but the dancing spiders certainly put effort into courtship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkzwG2lLPc Peacock spiders, dance for your life! - BBC

I've seen old brick wall with a lot of funnel of spiders. (I'm not sure it's the exact same specie of spider.) They were close, but not in contact of each other IIRC. I guess when there is not enough room they get use to have neighbors and then evolution makes them less grumpy.

There's youtube of: The Process of Making Friends With a Tiny Spider https://youtu.be/i6ucE1cfzmE