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 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9f348d33-c566-4134-8619-bb020b791928.png
Comments
Norgur@kbin.social 1 year ago
irmoz@reddthat.com 1 year 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 1 year ago
Thanks Satan
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Fuck you <3
Mamertine@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Ok but like this is what pranks should look like.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 year ago
When you work at Oscorp.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m putting this on the door into my office suite next week.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Some hairy leg tips poking out from under the sign too, I hope
ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m gonna steal this for my workplace 😁
Mordachai_Shedbacon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Brought to you by Spiders™
Gork@lemm.ee 1 year ago
🤨 Mostly?
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ediacarium@feddit.de 1 year ago
Why do I hear dark souls music?
Willer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
pov
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Go in. You’ll be fine. Just don’t breathe through your mouth.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Googles immediately: … how … to … make … napalm
Rin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Surprisingly straight forward
TacoNissan@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I could swear that this is my highschool
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did your high school have an almost-solved spider infestation problem?
TacoNissan@lemmy.zip 1 year 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 1 year ago
They mostly come at night… mostly
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They just need Spiders Georg to eat the rest.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year ago
!spiderbro@lemmy.world
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Unfortunately, like 99% of niche subreddits that moved here, it’s practically dead.