Spider infestations are a very binary problem: they are resolved (0 living spiders) or they are not resolved (>0 spiders). Which one is it? So there is greater zero spiders? Then it's not resolved, Dave! Go take that sign down!
Why do you still look worried?
Submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Norgur@kbin.social 11 months ago
irmoz@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Tbf, that depends on how you define “infestation”.
Maybe to them, it’s a matter of numbers and behaviour, and just one or two spiders chilling in the corner is no big deal.
Maybe it doesn’t become an infestation until there’s 10+ spiders, crawling at various points on and suspended from the ceiling, on the walls, under desks, behind your phone as you read this…
King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 11 months ago
Thanks Satan
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As an Australian, I’d also argue that an infestation depends on the species of spider, and how far out of the city you are.
10 daddy long legs (cellar spiders) is a bad time if you have to walk through them, but it’s not an infestation, I think I’d need 20 daddy long legs and a few hundred little babies before I say something is infested.
1 red back and an unhatched egg web would count as an infestation for me because I’m currently living in the city, but growing up in a regional town, you’d need 5+ before it’s infested.
I’ve got about 8 chubby bum garden spiders living under the capping of the colorbond, but the fence isn’t infested because they’re just garden spiders and they’re in the garden. That’s just where they live. I feel like I’d need 50+ spiders on the fence before I consider breaking out the mortein.
Kase@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fuck you <3
Mamertine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can’t prove something doesn’t exist.
This is the problem with when scientists declare a think extinct. They can’t prove it’s gone. They can sample and say “we haven’t seen one in a while, we think they’re gone”.
It’s the same with spider infestation. I’d you have seen one for a while, you can declare it’s resolved, but you’re never really sure.
PS spiders are better than bedbugs. A former employer I was at had a bedbug problem. That sucked for people in that office.
Norgur@kbin.social 11 months ago
So what you're saying is that we should just burn it all to the ground? Let me get my napalm real quick.
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok but like this is what pranks should look like.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 months ago
When you work at Oscorp.
billwashere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m putting this on the door into my office suite next week.
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Some hairy leg tips poking out from under the sign too, I hope
ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m gonna steal this for my workplace 😁
Mordachai_Shedbacon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Brought to you by Spiders™
Gork@lemm.ee 11 months ago
🤨 Mostly?
linearchaos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ediacarium@feddit.de 11 months ago
Why do I hear dark souls music?
Willer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
pov
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Go in. You’ll be fine. Just don’t breathe through your mouth.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Googles immediately: … how … to … make … napalm
Rin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Surprisingly straight forward
TacoNissan@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I could swear that this is my highschool
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did your high school have an almost-solved spider infestation problem?
TacoNissan@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
No but it was a 140 year old building so I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened since I left
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They mostly come at night… mostly
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They just need Spiders Georg to eat the rest.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Buncha wimps. Spiders are not out to get you. In fact, they’re out to get far more annoying insects like mosquitoes and houseflies. Do you know how many diseases those two spread? Do you know how many spiders spread? Spiders are your friends!
r/spiderbro is one of my most missed subreddits.
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
!spiderbro@lemmy.world
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Unfortunately, like 99% of niche subreddits that moved here, it’s practically dead.