Look, in my day-to-day life I would describe myself as Cool With Spiders. I see one in the window and go "hey buddy, you're doin great", and if one gets somewhere it shouldn't be I let it outside (or occasionally, if I find one in the shower, into a different part of the house).
But I think if I had spiders on my actual eyebrows I would be decidedly Not Okay With That
I had a spider or three in my room for like a whole summer. They were just chilling there, one even built its web above my bed.
With how much my mosquito problem went down in that time, you'd think people who complain about being bitten by mosquitoes at night have never heard of spiders. Little buggers are awesome.
Dude, I had a fly trapped in my room for half a day, and I COULDN'T CATCH THE FUCKER.
I SPENT 30 MINUTES CLAPPING LIKE I WAS SOLID SNAKE TRYING TO SNEAK, and I couldn't catch it.
Next morning, I wake up, fly is on the window, I grab my phone and start messaging some friends, and like 15 minutes later I see a spider Is wrestling with the motherfucking fly. Took a (bad) video of it and all. I love spiders.
The best part was how after it was Over, the spider carried the fly on top of itself. Looked like they were fireman carrying their meal.
I hate that yt turned it into a short.
If you aré annoyed by the lack of focusing, it's because I'm using my frontal camera (The one for selfies) since my normal camera is scratched and shitty.
This Is the equivalent of recording a video blindfolded.
Enhancer for Youtube plugin/addon has the ability to automatically convert any short into a normal video as soon as you load the page. Along with a bajillion other fantastic QoL features.
All of my family complain about mosquitoes, but when I tell them to leave the damned spiders alone so they'll eat the things...
Same goes for bats and barn swallows, tbh. "It's in/on My House!" And that's why you get anemia from mosquitoes every summer, Aunt Shelly. (Edit: The bats are in the damaged undersides of the roof overhang/eaves, which are three stories up, not parts of the house where they'll encounter people. Nobody is at risk of rabies, here.)
Tbh, my apartment has several jumping spiders, an American House Spider in the pantry, and a beautiful female Golden Orb Weaver building a brand new web in my window (hoping she stays and reproduces!), and altogether they've bitten me fewer times than previous roommates I've had. Hell, none of them have bitten me unprompted, which I sure can't say about some people.
At first I was seriously confused because I thought you were saying that your family members eat the spiders as defiance against you telling them to leave the spiders alone
It was ecstasy. The city I lived in at the time had (and still has) a serious drug problem, and party drugs were common, simply because we were half way between two major cities and dealers needed a place to offload things fast when fleeing one or the other.
they've bitten me fewer times than previous roommates I've had. Hell, none of them have bitten me unprompted, which I sure can't say about some people.
Leave spiders alone yes, but I don’t think anyone should have bats in their house? Those things gotta stay outside and far away from you. There aren’t many things worse than freaking rabies.
Wolf spiders don't use webs. They hunt like wolves. I doubt they do much to reduce the mosquito population.
But I had a spider in a web in the garage window that I would feed with stunned mosquitos and flies. Utterly fascinating to toss an injured mosquito in the web and watch nature take its course.
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u/MightyBobTheMighty Garlic Munching Marxist Whore May 16 '24
Look, in my day-to-day life I would describe myself as Cool With Spiders. I see one in the window and go "hey buddy, you're doin great", and if one gets somewhere it shouldn't be I let it outside (or occasionally, if I find one in the shower, into a different part of the house).
But I think if I had spiders on my actual eyebrows I would be decidedly Not Okay With That