Spiders

The effects of global warming not only eliminated or endangered many populations, but displaced many more, as species adapted to change by emigrating to climes they could survive. First, the most abundant, and fastest-growing creatures: insects, and many of them, pollinators for various vines and grasses that would follow.

Despite the inauspice of these changes, Jacques thought, the world teemed with more abundance and vitality now, than it had in all the centuries he had been witness to, yet. The future was a dark place, he thought, and for him, that suited just fine. Warmer nights would mean more flesh and blood, living, and breeding, and dying at night. More choices of where to feed. It would also mean more chances for the humans to get wise, to find out that there was more than just invasive killer insects and drouts to worry about. More chances to be discovered. He checked his watch: 10 past the hour. His dinner was late.