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A dude's gotta shed his skin every once in a while. Consider yourself lucky that your skeleton's on the inside.
I like spiders
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A dude's gotta shed his skin every once in a while. Consider yourself lucky that your skeleton's on the inside.
The female in that gif is very attractive to me. She should check out the utricating hairs in my crotchetal area. Bet she's a freak in the sack too.
I was so disappointed when my entomology professor told me we would be ignoring spiders for the semester as the class was strictly about insects. I wouldn't be opposed to taking a class in arachnology
I was so disappointed when my entomology professor told me we would be ignoring spiders for the semester as the class was strictly about insects. I wouldn't be opposed to taking a class in arachnology
Ah, that's what it is. Never actually saw it.
Wyndstryker
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Always found them fun to watch. One time was watching a spider fight a bunch of ants for 10 minutes but then I had to leave the area so I never saw the fight finish =/
Family doesn't like spiders though so we get rid of them from the apartment, but overall as long as they aren't in any of my living spaces they're cool.
Family doesn't like spiders though so we get rid of them from the apartment, but overall as long as they aren't in any of my living spaces they're cool.
Deified Data
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Ants won. Ants always win.
FrostuTheNinja
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If all it takes is to get a spider tattoo, then sign me up.
Now that I realize it sheds its exoskeleton, I find it even creepier. Thank you.
Deified Data
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I bet they find you pretty creepy, too, with your 2 eyes, 4 limbs, and soft, squishy skin.
Not to mention, I tower over them like moving mountains. I am a friend of spiders. Though, I have never see (or knew) that they molted. Which is really the only creepy part to me.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Spiders are cunts.
You think they would warn each other of my house. Every spider that enters gets a size 14 to the face.
You think they would warn each other of my house. Every spider that enters gets a size 14 to the face.
Antiwhippy
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As long they're not in the shower, toilet or my bedroom, I like them. But that goes for most insects in general. They can be pretty awesome.
Except for mosquitoes and fruit flies. I'll kill indiscriminately.
Except for mosquitoes and fruit flies. I'll kill indiscriminately.
I live in Australia, haven't had any real problems where ive been. Either let them be in the corner of the room, or just put a glass on top and slip a piece of card underneath and then take the spider somewhere outside.
Grinchy
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The internet has changed my opinion on spiders completely. My friends/family think it's insane that I will just live with spiders now without any concerns whatsoever.
Spider on the wall? Good, he's just doing his job. But anyone else in the room is freaked out and wants it dead, and they think I'm some kind of freak.
Spider on the wall? Good, he's just doing his job. But anyone else in the room is freaked out and wants it dead, and they think I'm some kind of freak.
Wyndstryker
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Yeah, it was looking grim after seeing it kill like 10 ants but see another 20 ants start crawling to the fight. By then a couple already climbed on top of the spider.
Crimsonclaw111
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As long as they don't crawl at me/in my space I'm fine. I've been bit and scarred twice by spiders though (knee, elbow) and if they come anywhere near me I smash them.
Kitsunebaby
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My arachnophobia started when I was 6 years old. My dad was renting a room from one of his friends (he did that between marriages) and when it was his turn for visitation I would stay over there. This man's house was a little stone cottage in the woods that had no air conditioning so he just left the door open in the summer for whatever to come in. Also, there was no bed for me so I slept on a mattress on the floor. One night while I was sleeping a giant fucking wolf spider crawled on my face and bit me several times. The pain woke me in time to see it scurrying away. After that day, spiders are my mortal enemy.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Spiders are okay by me. The one pest I hate are house mice. They're too anthropomorphic for my taste.
Winterfang
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I remember driving home to my house after a long day of work, and a fucking spider just entered the Car from behind the handle. It was a really small one thankfully.
I like spiders too - not crawling on me, but I love looking at them. A few years ago, I discovered we have black widows living outside our house, and I started feeding them various insects.
I took this picture a couple summers ago of this little gal living under my porch.
That insignia on her is familiar:
Wafflecakes
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I like spiders too - not crawling on me, but I love looking at them. A few years ago, I discovered we have black widows living outside our house, and I started feeding them various insects.
I took this picture a couple summers ago of this little gal living under my porch.
Ya.... no.
NoNoNoNoNoNoNo.
I try to be nice to my eight legged friends, but a line has to be drawn somewhere. Black Widows and Brown Recluses die under my shoe.
Orbis Tabula
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I'll never understand the "Spiders get rid of bugs around the house" mentality. Spiders are bugs! (Yeah, they're arachnids or whatever. I'm no biologist, but I'm using the more colloquial 'bug' here. All the creepy crawlies and arachnids and beetles and insects and bugs)
It's like saying "Yeah, I keep a murderer around the house. He murderers the other murderers for me and keeps me safe." You still have the problem of the original murderer.
It's like saying "Yeah, I keep a murderer around the house. He murderers the other murderers for me and keeps me safe." You still have the problem of the original murderer.
We have brown recluses in my area too - although I've never seen one. I'd not let them live outside my house (and I can't really let the widows stay now that I have a daughter) -- this will be their last summer to thrive under my porch, after that I will have to remove or kill them.
Brown Recluses are far more dangerous than widow's though - and a lot harder to identify.
Here's another shot I took:
Plus a little spider I found one day who was moulting(?):
On the national level they usually call it "ministry of defence" or "armed forces".
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Don't worry. For every terrifying arthropod, there is a much worse wasp waiting to lay its eggs inside of it
Grinchy
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I think it's more that they kill lots of bugs per spider. So one spider could represent the loss of many bugs.
Also, the house centipede things are disgusting and I'd rather have 5 spiders than one of those.
Exactly. Flies and mosquitoes too.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Can't really tell from the gif but it looks to me like a Lasiodora parahybana or the Pink Salmon Bird-eater. They are a rival for the largest tarantula in the world next to a Theraphosa stirmi/blondi which I own. The parahybana is for the most part on the docile side of tarantula temperaments. Not very defensive and generally on the slow side. If she was doing that with say a Pterinochilus murinus I would be crapping my pants!
Kitsunebaby
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They really don't. If I recall correctly, many spiders that you'll find in your house can live for a year or longer with no food or water, so they may not kill many at all in their lifetime.
My house doesn't really get many bugs. We do have moths but I like those so I wouldn't want spiders to kill them either. Spiders can fuck off.
My post from last night. I will try to kill most spiders, gross. Right in my face. disgusting.
Sapphire Dreams
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Yep, spiders are misunderstood creatures that their reputation ruined by movies and whatnot, do you know that out of 50,000 known species of spiders, only 15 can harm humans ?
I would just throw all kinds of crap, I thought spiders would like, into a shoe box.
Then I would brutally remove a spider from it's web (destroying it in the process), and put it inside its new home.
highrider
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interesting. thanks.
Grinchy
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I'd rather live with the delusion that their webs trap lots of mosquitoes and shit that I hate.
Charles Foster Kane
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I love spiders too. They're cool and can be very cute.
Came for this. Did not find disappointment.
Maybe it's all thanks to the silent protectors, who weave their webs in secrecy, unknown and unrewarded.
Yes and no. I've only ever heard of certain types of tarantulas living that long without sustenance. Spiders have incredibly low metabolism rates since most of the time they rely on their food to come to them which can be long periods of time. But even if they don't eat the insect, their webs still trap pesky critters and they eventually die anyway.
FrostuTheNinja
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Have an awesome black house spider in my garage. Wish I some decent pictures.
Freezasaurus
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I once just got out of the movie theater and discovered that there was a spider in my shorts!!! WTF spider?!?! Then it bit me.
vas_a_morir
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Yeah? And I like ants. But you don't see me making threads about it, now do you?
You just made a post about it. Congrats on finally coming out as an ant-lover!
I have an allergy to some stinging insects. Spiders eat those insects. Spiderwebs allow spiders to catch said insects. Therefore spiders are a good thing, and spiderwebs are not to be cleaned unless they are becoming an issue in some other way.
Spiders are my allies in the war against other insects. The local spiders don't even bite, so it's win-win here.
Spiders are my allies in the war against other insects. The local spiders don't even bite, so it's win-win here.
Kitsunebaby
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I wouldn't mind the spiders in my house if they were all web builders that stuck to little out-of-the-way corners, but most of them seem to be hunters that often show up in horrible places like my bed or my shower. Why must they attack me when I'm naked and vulnerable?
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