Comment on Spidey Senses
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
Bottom left is definitely a spider. I count 8 legs and can see the distinct segmentation of a spider body. Though, really, just dat fat ass gives it away.
Comment on Spidey Senses
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
Bottom left is definitely a spider. I count 8 legs and can see the distinct segmentation of a spider body. Though, really, just dat fat ass gives it away.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
… arent they all spiders?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think so, too. They all seem to have eight legs, more than two eyes, which don’t look like compound eyes, a cephalothorax/two body segments rather than three, a lack of antennae, etc. It would probably be easier to tell looking at them head-on so we could see their chelicerae.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Omg, at least it’s alive in your pic, ty <3.
And yes, we are hardwired for some memetics about spider-looking things, but being amazed by them, understanding them biologically, & perhaps a bit of co-living (about as close to befriending them without them being “a pet” & still independent - you know, just seeing & saying hi to Clara every day, watching the life of a begin with ups & downs) may adapt how the association network in your brainhole is used.
(Just guessing.)
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No problem!
That’s very accurate. I don’t mind handling tarantulas or furry jumping spiders, but shiny spiders of any kind creep me out. Bonus point for terror if there’s webbing involved. Hobo spiders are probably the worst. They’re so fast and aggressive. I still catch them and take them outside, but it still feels awful. The only exception to the mercy rule is the shower. Shower spiders go down the drain immediately.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Get a pet jumping spider. They don’t eat much, don’t need a large enclosure, you can handle them, and their venom is not significantly to humans (they don’t really bite anyway).
My partner has two of them on her desk, and catching them exploring or sunning themselves is a little happiness boost every time. Image
Here is one chilling out.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I just might do that. They’re very cute.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
I’m with you 100% spiders-wise but wonder if it’s cultural rather than lizard-brained. If I had a kid whom I could convince
then would this kid be down with spiders’ company?
Iapetus@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Nah, my mother loved spiders and we somehow regularly had fucking massive house spiders crawling around on the ceiling of the house when I was growing up. I swear she must have been bringing them into the house at one point or something, we definitely had a well above average amount of spiders for a good few years there.
There was only ever one at a time though, that I ever saw anyway, but they were those really big, hairy bastards that you can count the legs off from across the room and don’t look like they’re supposed to live in England.
Fast too, so fast, and eerily silent as they skittered, with too many angles protruding from their fat bodies. If you couldn’t see them so starkly outlined against the white ceiling, you’d never even know they were up there, and they’d cross the room in less time than it took you to walk there yourself.
My mum thought they were cool though and called them all Boris and she’d talk to them like they were bloody cats. Mad woman.
I am (thank fuck) not my mother and shit scared of most spiders*. My mothers’ behaviour did not impact my perfectly rational fear of potentially dangerous creatures crawling around my house. I know giant house spiders aren’t dangerous to humans, but plenty of other big spiders around the world are and I don’t think it’s wise to try desensitise human children to this, especially as more and more species now will be migrating due to climate change.
*Jumping spiders are cool, I like those ones. They’re surprusingly smart, and cute, and they’ve even evolved a vegetarian amongst them.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
i think it’s instinctive to go “OH FUCK” when something of sufficient size skitters about, but not instinctive to specifically hate spiders
and it doesn’t matter what the skittery thing is, if a mouse scurries across my floor i’m gonna get spooked too, and i think mice are cute!
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Yeah, I also think its cultural and not an instinct. We don’t have screens on the windows, so letting spiders roam freely means I don’t get flies, which are objectively worse to cohabitate with.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
They are all spiders, but if it hadn’t said they were all spiders I could have still just looked at that guy and went “wait a minute…” He looks the least ant-like.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Oh, yeah - but I don’t know what species of and it’s mimicking. I perhaps that’s just how they look too & now we are body-shaming for looking to spidery (‘sup, you 6-legged no-neck with that thicc ass’) :D.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Why would you put that uncensored comment out here for us to see? Now I’m going to have nightmares as if directed by John Capenter about spiders that look exactly like puppies to humans until they attack.
They are most dangerous on Halloween, by the way:
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Stay vigilant. Do not become a statisic.