Oh nooooooo
If I never know that the spider is there then we shall both live a peaceful life.
Submitted 19 hours ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 47 minutes ago
eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
This is a real problem, it’s why you shouldn’t kill rattlesnakes. If we kill the rattlesnakes that make themselves known, over time they adapt to not rattle before striking.
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Huh, coincidentally,I just finished reading Children of Time
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 18 minutes ago
Envious. The next two books are also great (fourth one coming in a couple months)
sparkles@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
I’ve gotten brave in my old age. I only relocate them if they become extremely inconvenient …like my doorway spider (sorry frank). I ignore house spiders entirely as they transit my house. Good luck, leggy friend.
I have a pretty orb weaver on the porch (or I did last summer). Hope I get another.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Same, I had two Joros this year. Their webs are LITERALLY gold, it’s so cool. They really just chill. Imagine my disappointment when both disappeared before the New Year and I learned their lifespans. :(
sparkles@piefed.zip 1 hour ago
Those are beautiful. Not native where I am. It reminds me of the “banana spiders” where I grew up. There used to be these big, majestic nests of them. I ran face first through one as a kid. Definitely a core memory.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
We have a few mildly dangerous ones and I have kids.
Our rule is if the spider stays in his world we leave it alone, if it’s in ours, they may be out of luck. The doorway is a neutral zone along with usually the entryway and questionably the kitchen.
jpablo68@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
That’s why I only kill the roaches that venture into my house, if I see a roach in the street I leave it alone to thrive that way all future offspring will be selected for street only living.
bebabalula@feddit.dk 15 hours ago
Birds also only eat spiders they see. Not sure how that’s any different
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
You’re forgetting all the spiders that crawl into the bird’s mouth while it’s sleeping.
edinbruh@feddit.it 13 hours ago
Good, we should make them even more reclusive and smarter. Honestly, an army of highly intelligent bug killers specialized in keeping out of my sight hiding in the interstices of my house sounds like an awesome idea
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah, I think it would be kinda cool if the next intelligent species on this planet after we kick the bucket is arachnid.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Children Of Time Intensifies
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I once tried making a similar argument to a game warden about only hunting deer during the day. They were not appreciative of the take.
This was after I hit a deer with my car while driving home from Thanksgiving, it was not a good time.
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Don’t think this uploaded correctly
HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
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HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Opening the link to this thread in browser works though, so maybe it just isn’t federating properly from the piefed instance?
sga@piefed.social 16 hours ago
i thought i had something broken on my end so tried different methods of downloading, or checking if piefed broke something so checked my alts.
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Why kill spiders? Oh, maybe it’s Australia.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 minutes ago
Nah, still doesn’t make sense. They kill the mozzies and the blowies for us.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Leave the big ones alone in Australia. They’re harmless. The ones that need killings are tiny and super venomous.
essell@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’m asking myself whether the humans in Australia became extra dangerous in order to acclimate 🤔
umbrella@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
i select my spiders based on how effectively they can eat and rid me of the annoying gnats
huppakee@piefed.social 11 hours ago
I recognised this problem years ago and decided to also let them eat bugs in plain sight. Unfortunately my house isn’t big enough to counter evolution on my own, but I feel there is more people out there who also stopped killing spiders because of this.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 hours ago
I kill plenty I don’t see, too, whenever I bug bomb my home.
dragnucs@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Aren’t they already smart?
dddontshoot@lemmy.world 26 minutes ago
Any flies that fly into my house are given a chance to leave. If I can herd them out the window, they get to live and make lots of new baby flies.
On the other hand, their chances of getting a close up view of the fly swatter increase exponentially with every minute they spend refusing to leave and ignoring the fact that I’m literally showing them the exit.