remon
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- Comment on Spidey Senses 1 day ago:
Alright, I tracked down the original source (no links provided in the news article …) and it seems they do mean the noble false widow when they say “common house spider”. Which I guess is technically correct, because it’s a common spider to find in your home (in the UK, Ireland and California, that is).
Anyway, the actual article is quite interesting and above my paygrade as an amateur enthusiast. The first thing that stood out to me was that they said “In addition to their medically significant venom”, refering to Steatoda nobilis. That is not what is widley accepted amonst arachnologists.
So I forwarded it to a friend who is a proper, published arachnologist. He immedietly replied with “Oh, yeah, the Dunbar study”. It seems to be kind of a one-off study so far (there are very few properly documented bites to begin with). By the professional called the study “valuable” but also said that he was “sceptical to the interpretation”.
I would add that bites from Steatoda (and Theridiidae in generall, which includes black widows) are very rare and quite easy to avoid. They are very stationay spiders and can stay their entire live in a single web (the females. Males will wander around during mating season, but even amongst the black widows, only the mature females are considered medically significant).
I’ll still happily have Steatoda spiders in my flat with not worries. I know them, they’re cool.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 1 day ago:
Uff … this article. Talking about a common house spider, showing a picture of a noble false widow but labeling it a black widow … I’m gonna disect that in a minute, wait for my next reply.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 1 day ago:
I didn’t harm them but it’s a sad memory for me bcs the smol town (or the whole valley?) I grew up in basically doesn’t have them anymore. Bcs we hate flowers/biodiversity, but love grass & pesticides I guess.
Wasp spider actually primarily live in tall grass. But I guess pesticides don’t help.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 1 day ago:
I know giant house spiders aren’t dangerous to humans, but plenty of other big spiders around the world are and I don’t think it’s wise to try desensitise human children to this
There is actually not a lot of them, really just a handful of species per continent (out of 53.000). It’s much easier to learn about the few medical significant spiders in your area and be cool to all the spiderbros.
- Comment on 🧊🧊👶 2 days ago:
Intercity Express.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 2 days ago:
What do you mean … if?
For discovery: Music sharing channels on various discord server.
- Comment on 🧊🧊👶 2 days ago:
One of those will get you somewhere reliably and fast. Unfortuinalty the somewhere is a detention camp.
- Comment on Time to put my plank training to good use 3 days ago:
Use your feet!
- Comment on It is even possible to "imitate" the voice of a fictional character without AI? 3 days ago:
The voice of a fictional character is the original voice actor.
Yes, voice actors can be imitated without AI, like Rick & Morty recently did when they replaced the VA of the main characters with two different VAs. A lot of people didn’t even notice it.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars? 3 days ago:
Sure. Just go to the community and select “block community” in the sidebar. (Or go to the settings -> blocks -> and type it into the search bar).
- Comment on Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars? 4 days ago:
Lemmy is best enjoyed with a very extensive blocklist.
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 6 days ago:
For me not at all, they have totally differnet use cases.
At home the only purpose is of the phone is to be an alarm clock, 2FA machine and maybe for a bit of media consumption while on the toilet. Asides from it’s main purpose is urgent mobile communication.
But I really don’t see why anyone would want to use a phone when there is a computer with a big screen and proper mouse/keyboard inputs availible.
- Comment on Especially during this heat wave! 1 week ago:
Males nipples are, for reasons I don’t understand, totally fine.
- Comment on Especially during this heat wave! 1 week ago:
Probably Americans upset about seeing nippels.
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 1 week ago:
Except Netflix has ads now, too.
- Comment on Soon you will be dealing with this at your supermarket check out shaming you to "donate" 1 week ago:
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 week ago:
Get my SNES or Gameboy and play some Zelda.
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 1 week ago:
Just an internet fad, will be over soon enough.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
Sure you do, you got the same genus of fishing spider as these. In fact, you got 15 of them (the US has 3).
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
Arachnologists everywhere disagree :)
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
Not entirely accurate, there are some save zones in North- an West Alaska.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the book out of interest?
Totally my bad, I should have given credit anyway.
It’s “Spiders of North America” by Sarah Rose.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
the spiders can grow that big, especially if female.
I tried to click the link, but after having to identify motorcyles and busses 5 times in a row … I have up. Maybe I’m a bot.
Good thing I have an actual book!
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
From a quick search these spiders aren’t that big
25-28mm body lenght is quite a considerable size. I think a cousin of these is often dubbed the “UK’s largest spider”, even though it technically isn’t. But they are up there. Yes, the US has tarantulas, giant house spiders and some larger wolf spiders, but Dolomedes is up there.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
Even if that particular picture was AI (I don’t think it is), there is nothing surprising or exaggerated going on here. More like it’s a rare thing. That’s totally within the capabilities of a fishing spider.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, they are generally opportunistic and can be quite brazen. But most of the time they’ll go after easier, smaller prey.
I used to have a Goliath birdeater and it was entirely fed on crickets. We tried a baby mouse once, but it was a huge mess to clean up and they don’t need nor prefer it.
Theridiidae are usually the most notourious for going after much bigger prey.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a change in their eating habits, these spiders are known to catch, frog, salamanders or basically anything that size you’ll find near water. Just rare to see and snap a picture of one with a turtle.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 weeks ago:
Nope, that’s a north American species.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
Ok, but it’s rather specific case if you were still using a laptop with an HDD last year.
