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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But then when the bogs get flooded for harvest, the wolf spiders have nowhere to go that’s not water, so the people who are harvesting cranberries are like tall islands of refuge, so they swarm to the humans for safety, so the humans are covered in friendly happy relieved wolf spiders <3

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There’s a man in the hole and a spider on the man and a frog on the spider in the bog down in the valley-o!

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      • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Is this meant to be sung to the cadence of one of Tom Bombadil’s songs? I dunno why that’s just what felt right when I read it.

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  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wolf spiders don’t build webs though.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No they hide instead.

      In small corners, like a small hole in the stonewall next to your wall attached reading lamp.

      So then when your finnaly sleep you hear like this scratch noise. So you turn on your lamp and you see that its little bit off wall dust coming of it.

      And at first you like huh so you look a little closer and you see that its comming from that little hole in the wall.

      AND THEN SOME LEGS JUMP OUT OF THERE.

      Before you know it you stand at the furthest other corner of the room.

      A full spider has pulled itself from the whole, and it is at you, menacingly.

      You can barely breathe, but deep down you know that the creature can’t help it. It is not a monster, and neither are you.

      You where though to most sensable thing is to put such insects outside. So you sneak downstairs trying to find a glass and piece of paper to capture it in.

      So then you, a brave armed with a glass faces the beast.

      And as you hold your arm in the vicinity of its claws. You realize:

      The size of this beasts is far bigger then the diameter of the opening of this glass.

      You run to the hallway you are truly losing it. But then you hear another sound.

      Your dad appears from nowhere, and he asks what are my troubles.

      SO I SHOW MY HERO TO THE BEAST

      AND HE FUCKING LEGS IT. EVEN MORE A COWARD THAN YOU. Goes to bed and leaves you to it remarking its large size.

      That is what wolfspiders do. They don’t just destroy your confidence, they show that you came from nothing and will remain it till the day you become food.

      That is what wolfspides do.

      Also they can jump 2m straight, thankgod i only found out as it jumped from glass 2# into the darkness of the garden as i you realize they could have jumped into your face at any point of time back in the room. You where never safe.

      That is what Wolfspiders do.

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      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This sounds like Ze Frank on cocaine.

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      • figjam@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I worked at a summer camp with a wolf spider as roommate in my cabin. I told him she could stay as long as she didn’t bite the kids. All other counselors complained about mice in their cabins but were surprised I didn’t have any.

        Fast forward to the last week of camp. Stupid loudmouth kid sees the spider and hits it with a broom. Kids all scream and I run back inside. Asshole kid is trying to squish her and I stop him and get her outside. I scold the kid and he is unrepentant. Last morning in camp he wakes up with a swolen lip that is rapidly taking over his face. He isn’t having an allergic reaction but his whole face looks like sloth from the goonies. As I put him on the bus to go home he is crying because his mom won’t recognize him. “Well, maybe next time leave the spider alone”

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      • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What? Wolfspiders are pretty shy. When I try to take pictures of them from close up they always run away :( Also, they are not that big. Wiki says the largest are 35 mm in body size (1.38 in). And also they are no insects!!

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    • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I came here to make sure someone had said this. I usually have a wolf spiderbro in my bathroom. I talked to one this morning in fact, he was a new, smaller one though. They’re great. Eat bugs, no webs. Not significantly dangerous at all.

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    • BleakBluets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Building webs is for suckas

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    • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’d like to

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  • pigup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And then, because cranberries are horrible to eat, they make products from them and spike them with ungodly amounts of sugar. Then they lobby the FDA to make exceptions for them to not report “added sugars” since cranberry products are “basically the same as blueberries, bro”

    I know too much about them and their destructive practices, they’re assholes. Have a nice day.

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    • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why is there so much hate on bitter. Bitter is superior to sweet in every way. The best pastries are the ones that use cranberries instead of blueberries. Sugar is even added to blueberries and strawberries as if that made them more desirable. The best pastries are minimalist with sugar. Orange-cranberry bread is one of the best combinations.

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      • pigup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      but they are amazing for urinary tract infections.

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      • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        When i had a uti, my doctor said i had to drink a lot of cranberry juice. I’d rather deal with an uti

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      • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They are also good to protect your bladder if you take a lot of ketamine.

        Keep in mind though that they do not heal. They protect against damage and infections but infections don’t just go away.

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  • techt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d call that a rattlin’ bog

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    • wetsoggybread@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for reminding me of that song

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      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There is so many different versions …

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  • villainy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah well peaches come from a can, and they were put there by a man.

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    • BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In a giant bog? Or somewhere more industrial? Sayyyy some sort of commercial building or warehouse? I would also like to know where this place is, if you knew.

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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think I know of what you speak. It’s in the center of the metropolitan area, the middle of the city, down a ways from uptown.

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  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    bog moment

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    • min@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bog if true!

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Love driving past cranberry bogs being harvested! Seeing them flooded is cool.

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  • sir_pronoun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This true

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  • RBridger@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    frog and cranberries it must be fall

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