mercy merci
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Nightlight17776@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
I’m sorry, spider, but it’s this or the mercy of the cats.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
There ain’t no mercy where the purr comes from
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
You rather die now?
howrar@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Starlight tour, but for spiders.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
The spiders have their corners in my house. Doesn’t bother me. They eat the pesky flying insects that like to fly in my face.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 minutes ago
I have off-limits places: where I sleep and in the shower. If I can’t reach them and they’re there… unfortunately they get the hand vac. Otherwise, it’s time to bring out and index card and Dedicated Spider Cup. It’s outside if it’s not winter, and basement if it’s winter.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Spider bro.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Spider bro
They can’t look extraordinarily deadly though if they don’t wanna be taken outside - any daddylonglegs lookers are 100% safe to corner chill
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This take could swing from normal all the way to unhinged depending on the number and size the spiders
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Distant cackling
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 day ago
Same here, although they’re not catching much of the current infestation of Maple/Boxelder bugs.
I like their look and dopey panicked movements when they notice you watching them, but the cute looks get old when there’s 20 sunbathing on the wrong side of the kitchen window.
Seleni@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The only spiders I’ve seen want to eat those are cellar spiders, and even that seems reluctant on their part lol. Guess they really taste horrible or something.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hum… I tried to maintain that philosophy until they attracted a wanderer that I was unable to get rid of for 2 days until it ate all the spiders. Also, one of them attacked me, what wasn’t a big issue, but I prefer not to happen again.
Now I kill them all.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
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The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Wow, he deported the spider. Unbelievable.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That’s cold… as ICE
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
And someone way down here loses someone dear ! 🎶
Zerush@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I would have thought a spider was impossible to pet had I not seen this. Chill little fella.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Jumping spiders are very nice pets, a lot of people have it as such. They are smart enough to recognise their owner and even to learn tricks.
meco03211@lemmy.world 1 day ago
While I try to let them chill for the most part, the eight legged bastard that descended from the ceiling in the middle of the room to just eye level with me got clapped like a bitch.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
That guy is the reason why all spiders get the impediment of the doubt from me.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I had one plop off the ceiling onto my shoulder while I was working a few weeks ago. Took a pic and sent it to my daughters to remind them spiders are our friends and then took him off my shoulder and put him on the ground.
My philosophy… if he’s surviving in my house, he’s eating bugs and providing a service.
Zomg@piefed.world 23 hours ago
There all good, until I notice them. That's my policy
buttnugget@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I aspire to never be this pathetic.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 23 hours ago
Killing spiders is a scam by big fly/mosquito/insert insect of choice.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Second, find a take-away container, scoop the spider into the container
What, like an excavator?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
FUCK THAT
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 1 day ago
All the spiders in my house got names… The are all namens Gunter!
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Funny, I expect all penguins to have that name.
Damage@feddit.it 1 day ago
What about Boris?
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
House-dwelling spiders are usually adapted to life inside the house (likely cave-dwelling species). Their survival rate outside is not very good.
stray@pawb.social 21 hours ago
Maybe it depends on where you live, but I always find the same spiders living in gardens or on the side of a shed or something, so I’ve never been worried about that except in winter.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Does not apply so much in warm weather countries. All the spiders that come into our house are also easily found loving life outside (Australia). I just gently move them out, except daddy long-legs, generally let some of them stay as pest control.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ahhh okay. I live in Canada and I frequently see spiders roaming my house when it’s well below freezing outside. I’m pretty confident they will not survive out in the snow.
notthebees@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
wolf spiders not so much
eldain@feddit.nl 17 hours ago
That’s really cute until you apply the “alive in wrong space at wrong time” philosophy to cockroaches and termites. Clean your house and keep the local wildlife outside.
Chakravanti@monero.town 13 hours ago
Spiders eat those things. That guy up there called those eating meat hypocrites but they’re a little off missing this fact.
People who save spiders and eat do it because they’re not hypocrites. They respect their own kind.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Except moskito and fly.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It says not bothering anyone.
Hirom@beehaw.org 18 hours ago
I started releasing rather than killing spiders after reading “Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
In that future, most animals have disappeared and people consider the sight of a spider as an extraordinary thing. Sparing a single spider might be vain, but it feels right knowing insect/spider population is quickly decreasing.
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
After a shower a giant crab spider dropped out of my towel, instinctually I knew only one of us would leave that bathroom alive.
But little jumping spiders are my buddies
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Huntsman spiders are a special case. I don’t think I would do well with a tarantula in my bathroom while I’m naked either.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also you do NOT want to face an all spider jury one day.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
You have the right to be judged by a jury of your fears.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
96 eyes all judging me.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
If you upvoted and you eat meat, then you’re an extreme hypocrite.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 13 hours ago
Spiders are more like ICE, they invade your home
(I don’t mind if they squat in the basement tho)
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Spiders are friends. I will terminate any centipedes found inside my house, though. The bastardly kind, not the house centipedes.
Fugit@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
If they survive my cats, rather than kicking them out, I catch and dispatch them inside the house. They more than deserve it.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Spiders do not deserve this mercy. Kill on sight.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Spiders are keeping your house free of bugs that will eat your food if they find it. They’re working hard and get little thanks.
RadicalCandour@startrek.website 20 hours ago
This brings up a lot of guilt I have for killing so many spotted lantern flies. I hate that it’s so necessary
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I understand the metaphor, but I think we as men are the spiders.
Tessa9999@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I love spiders
1984@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Exactly. Why do people think killing the spider is what you should do? If they do that, they also cant complain if someone kills them for no reason.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Not all spiders are buddies who will just keep to their website and kill pests. Many are aggressive roaming hunters that just go around biting shit to see if it is edible. And that includes you just sleep or sitting still.
Also, even the nonvenomous spiders have some seriously bad oral hygiene and carry bacteria that causes deep infectious wounds that take months to heal.
Even with all that, if they were just slow or stupid I might take the time to catch and release, but given that the majority are stupid fast, and/or actively trying to leap at me… they gotta die.
Having said that I don’t fuck with them outside, especially the banana spiders, because banana spiders are instantly easy to identify and aren’t interested in starting trouble.1984@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
I guess it depends on what spiders you have there. We have like house spiders here, nothing big or toxic. Harmless.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My mom taught me growing up to deal with spiders like this. She proudly told me how her dad had taught her to do it. Now she’s nearly 90 and when she sees a spider she’s like KILL THAT FUCKIN THING!!!*
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
If a human was knitting gross, sticky white shit on my wall, I think I’d kill them too.
lib1@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Question for the science side of Lemmy: Does putting a spider outside ever hurt the spider? Like if it’s too cold or something?
phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
symptoms of being a masochist
Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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beveradb@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I love that the bear also uses a cup and napkin 😂
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Alien invasion!
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