Messin with spiders

[CavLancer]

I don't much like the critters and if one of these showed up I might get out the gun. This one is "out looking for a mate", and I might try to set her up rather than do battle. How do you feel about the things?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I don't much like the critters and if one of these showed up I might get out the gun. This one is "out looking for a mate", and I might try to set her up rather than do battle. How do you feel about the things?

My son raises them and sells them. Much to my astonishment there is a market for exotic spiders.

I have a daddy long legs living in a houseplant next to my desk. I call him Boris. I am mostly a live and let live kind of guy, though living in the desert does set me at odds with black widows that might bite me or mine, so they have to go if they set up housekeeping too close to the house.

 

[Arwon]

I don't much like the critters and if one of these showed up I might get out the gun. This one is "out looking for a mate", and I might try to set her up rather than do battle. How do you feel about the things?

Lol that's just a Huntsman they're harmless

 

[Valka D'Ur]

How do you feel about the things?

[Garfield with a rolled-up newspaper]SPLAT![/Garfield with a rolled-up newspaper]

This forum lacks a font that is suitable for accurately describing my antipathy to spiders that invade my indoor space.

 

[Bootstoots]

Spiders are awesome! Spiders reduce the number of other bugs in your indoor space. Of course their presence also means that you have enough bugs in your indoor space to sustain spiders, but strictly speaking they're better than not having them.

That is, unless you're the type of person who sees ants cleaning up after a frozen pizza and are like "Yay! Ants have arrived!" I'm that kind of person. But then again, I'm the sort of person who wants my apartment to be a whole fun ecosystem, of which this bipedal ape is just a part. I would kill neither the ants nor the spiders, but I'd watch them feed off each other! My landlord would probably frown upon this, but luckily the exterminator who comes every month clearly doesn't take his job too seriously.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Spiders are awesome! Spiders reduce the number of other bugs in your indoor space. Of course their presence also means that you have enough bugs in your indoor space to sustain spiders, but strictly speaking they're better than not having them.

Six- or eight-legged people are not allowed in my apartment. The maximum number of legs per person on my lease is four (I have 2 and both my cats have 4).

I used to be semi-okay with spiders in my house, when I had a house. Our backyard did have a thriving ecosystem with birds, squirrels, insects, and we had a raccoon visit one night. So I tolerated the spiders, with the proviso that I see evidence of their actually catching insects. Unproductive spider webs would get vacuumed up. I informed the spiders of this in April (or when I noticed the first mosquitoes of the year), so they had no excuse for not knowing.

But I really don't like bugs that bite, and I keep a fly swatter and rolled-up newspaper around to take care of any mosquitoes, house flies, or spiders that come in. Thankfully, not many do.

 

[Bootstoots]

Yeah, biting is seriously not cool, along with vaguely looking like a brown recluse. Sometimes I kill the occasional ant just to watch the rest of them freak out and go into their alarm-pheromone state for about a minute before calming down and continuing to forage on the little piece of cheese or sausage on the counter, and other times I pick up ants and deposit them on either a new source of food or nothing, and watch to see if they find their way back. Ants remind me of humans except that I can experiment with them, so I'm more than willing to push the legs/creature ratio well above 4 on their behalf. Even above 6: millipedes (and most spiders) are welcome, but centipedes are not because of the biting rule.

 

[shadowplay]

Unless we're talking about the big freaky tropical centipedes, the ones in the US don't bite people.

 

[Bootstoots]

I figured they probably didn't, but I killed them anyway. No good reason for it.

 

[shadowplay]

They eat your spider friends. There's a reason.

 

[Hygro]

I got a couple Japanese cellar spiders (the not-actually daddy longlegs) in my room. They keep out the bugs and the other spiders, and they are the least intrusive on my consciousness.

 

[FriendlyFire]

That is, unless you're the type of person who sees ants cleaning up after a frozen pizza and are like "Yay! Ants have arrived!" I'm that kind of person..

Dear America
- Stop wasting food
- Clean up afterwards like everyone else
- Stop filming rats eating left over pizza and uploading for the world to see
Thanks

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What makes you think that was left-over? They do sell pizza by the slice.

 

[CavLancer]

Nah, never mind cleaning up, just gotta have the right pet to take care of the rat problem.

 

[Bootstoots]

I've had a number of pet rats over the years, nine in total but no more than two at a time. They're awesome! The best thing I ever fed them was a crayfish/crawdad. Watching them fight over the privilege of eating the eyes was priceless. They ate everything, making a mockery out of humans that eat like 20% of each sea crustacean and then discard it. And then there was the time I bought a bat detector, an ultrasonic transducer that clicks when it detects ultrasound. Rats communicate in ultrasound so I got to eavesdrop on them. They would make little ultrasound chirps whenever they curled up together or groomed each other. They also groomed me - humans are very dirty by rat standards. Or at least this human is.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

How does the rat know the size of the desert?

 

[sophie]

I try not to cause undue harm to anything if I can help it. If I see a spider in the house I generally leave it be. If it's causing a problem I move it outside with a cup+cardboard

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't like spiders, but i won't actively try to kill one if it appears, unless it can bring about loads of other spiders or is very visible/large.

That said, i once had to spend the night in a small hotel in London, where i discovered a rather HUGE black spider. I don't quite recall why i did not ask for a new room (maybe i already had and was moved there, and/or the clerk was a douche), but ultimately i had to push the spider back under a desk by spraying perfume, and then place some covers onto it, hoping the spider would not find its way out and crawl onto me as i was sleeping... Used it at the start of one of the stories in my published book as well , so at least it led to some good too...

 

[yung.carl.jung]

some spiders are adorable

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Spiders are awesome! Spiders reduce the number of other bugs in your indoor space. Of course their presence also means that you have enough bugs in your indoor space to sustain spiders, but strictly speaking they're better than not having them.

That is, unless you're the type of person who sees ants cleaning up after a frozen pizza and are like "Yay! Ants have arrived!" I'm that kind of person. But then again, I'm the sort of person who wants my apartment to be a whole fun ecosystem, of which this bipedal ape is just a part. I would kill neither the ants nor the spiders, but I'd watch them feed off each other! My landlord would probably frown upon this, but luckily the exterminator who comes every month clearly doesn't take his job too seriously.

Completely agree. I love spiders, I actually care to make my home a spider-friendly environment. They bring nothing but pleasure and dead mosquitoes, which I appreciate very much. I even have no problems with some other bugs, moths come to my mind. Some moths are actually magnificently beautiful.

I could go on a whole tangent about this. I'm enamored with bees and bumblebees. When I buy my own house, in a few decades, I'll keep my own bees. I also want to breed Beetles, you know, just for fun. For some reason I can't think of I mentioned it to my girlfriend and she was actually into it. So this is definitely going down.


moths are cute

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beetles are cool

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[Hygro]

Moths ate holes in my two suit jackets