• Klear@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I remember a bush outside my window with the spider in it. Green body, orange legs… I watched her build a web all summer. One day there was an egg in the web. After a while, the egg hatched and hundreds of baby spiders came out and ate her.

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          17 days ago

          Thank you! I saw people sharing their creepy spider stories and immediately thought of this.

          Was surprised when it started gathering upvotes seemingly just because people thought it was just another creepy story.

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          17 days ago

          Seriously?

          I was scratching my head because I couldn’t think of any green bodied web-building spiders with orange legs that also practice matriphagy …

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    18 days ago

    So I’m like 13 years old, climbing a tree at a friend’s house. It’s a bit of a shimmy up the trunk, I’m well in the air, hugging the tree. I look down at my feet to make sure I have footing before lifting a hand above my head to reach for a branch.

    As my head is going from looking down to looking up, just as I am grabbing the branch and hanging from it, I realize that my nose is almost touching a big old wolf spider mama, fully laden with all her children.

    DROP

    I never climbed that tree again.

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        18 days ago

        To add to what nougat said, because that’s very much the appropriate answer…

        All spiders are in fact venomous- it’s part of how they feed. Many species, the venom is not harmful to humans, or only very weakly so. (Wolf spiders qualify as “very weakly so”)

        That said, you try keeping a reasonable head when you suddenly come eyeball-to-eyeball with a wolf spiders qualify and her kids.

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            18 days ago

            Did the comment above get edited? It look like you’re just repeating the same thing stated in there.

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            So, true spiders digest their food externally by injecting the venom. They then slurp it up. So the answer to that is “Yes”. Some true spiders may also eat the more solid bits, but that’s in addition to. but again, many- most- spiders are essentially harmless to humans.

            harvestmen (daddy long legs) are not venomous and lack the mouth-parts necessary for injection, but they’re not true spiders.

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        17 days ago

        One climbed onto my foot while I was brushing my teeth once and I launched myself into the wall behind me pretty hard which hurt. Other than that I don’t think so.

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    17 days ago

    I found a wolf spider with a bunch of babies in my sink. Scooped it up and put them in the leaf litter outside my house. Normally I never see them inside my house, especially carrying all of the babies.

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      17 days ago

      They are not great indoor spiders but since they are always roaming around they sometimes end up inside homes.

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    17 days ago

    I can tolerate looking at one single spider. Some of them are even looking very cute.

    But one big spider with hundreds mini spiders on top of it looks very disturbing 🫥

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    18 days ago

    Try to keep wolf spiders alive but if you must kill, watch they don’t have the hundred babies on their back. If they do…it’s nightmare fuel

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    18 days ago

    Walking back home from work at night I cross some fields, I see dozens of them. They are super easy to spot with a headlamp, their eyes shine like tiny glass shards or water droplets.

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    First time I saw this was on the beach late on a moonless night. This was before cell phones, so I had to get close in the dim glow from a street light half a block away. They started sprawling.

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    Aren’t they the cutest nightmares you’ve ever seen?

    I’ll never forget walking through my grandfathers yard and noticing that with every step I took, I’d see a few dart away from me. Only saw them when they were crossing the tops of flat clove leaves in the grass. Wouldn’t have known they were there, otherwise. They were everywhere, out there. Every square foot of grass. Was curious enough to find out what they were and much to my relief, mostly harmless. Still, tresspassers caught inside, get the death penalty.

    I’ve crawled under nearly a thousand houses since then and never got bit, despite undoubtedly being covered by different kinds. Still panic if I catch em on me, but I know I don’t have much to worry about here in the PNW. The coast and valley are pretty safe. Rattlers and widows are more common east of the valley.

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      18 days ago

      Given THC the active ingredient in marijuana, the spider didn’t build a web, but a hammock. Where it would lay all day and watch the caffeine spider go.