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.
You’re reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl.
I flip it.
Wait, no, that was the tortoise…
Well this took a turn.
It’s a quote from Blade Runner.
Lemmy, I am disappoint.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.
Ah, only seem it once.
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 …
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.
Are they venomous or otherwise dangerous to humans?
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.
Yes, all spiders are venomous, but only few have venoum which are dangerous for humans and also only few capable to inject it under the human skin. Dangerous are only few species and not necesarly the biggest ones, eg, the Australian Huntsman is not. https://www.britannica.com/list/9-of-the-worlds-deadliest-spiders
Did the comment above get edited? It look like you’re just repeating the same thing stated in there.
All spiders are in fact venomous
Are there any exceptions to this? And what about non spiders like daddy long legs?
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.
harvestmen (daddy long legs) are venomous and lack the mouth-parts necessary for injection, but they’re not true spiders.
Harvestmen do not possess venom glands.
Dammit I need to be more careful when posting on mobile. Meant to say not, lol. Thanks for the correction
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/wolf-spider-bite
Seems like it’s not even as bad as a bee sting. Spiders are really not very dangerous at all, generally speaking. They’re going to leave you alone unless you’re fucking with them.
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.
Wow that sounds dangerous
Nope. Also, if you coax a momma into your hand, you can throw it at your enemies for a spectacular spider-bomb.
🏌️🕷️ ——––-----___🎯👤
Spider-Bomb, Spider-Bomb
Does what ever a… AH! GET THAT THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!
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.
They are not great indoor spiders but since they are always roaming around they sometimes end up inside homes.
TIL, it’s not so much that we step on them as they they throw themselves under our footsteps…
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 🫥
Don’t make me stop this thorax
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
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.
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.
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.
Since spiders get drunk on caffeine, she’s doing a Starbucks run.
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.
