I always knew I was right to scoop them up and put them outside. My wife just murders them outright.
Birds also only eat spiders they see. Not sure how that’s any different
well…birds aren’t real…soooo…
Good point…
you’ve been eating those spiders in your sleep
So that’s why I get a funny taste in my mouth after an Ambien night.
Did you know that the average person eats 8 spiders every hour while they sleep?
i’m not sleeping
You’re forgetting all the spiders that crawl into the bird’s mouth while it’s sleeping.
Nah that’s just spiders beord throwing off the averages.
Also, any effects we may have on arthropod selective evolution by randomly killing visible spiders is going to be vastly overshadowed by the very rapid and immediate changes we’re making to the environment broadly.
We would need somewhere between centuries or millennia of very predictable and consistent behavior killing visible spiders before we saw any change to their overall behavior, meanwhile we’ve all but destroyed the ecosystem at their scale anyway, which is going to have vastly more dramatic impact on populations and evolution, assuming they survive at all.
When was the last time any of you remember getting your windows covered with bugs after a summer drive?
I’ve gotten brave in my old age. I only relocate them if they become extremely inconvenient …like my doorway spider (sorry frank). I ignore house spiders entirely as they transit my house. Good luck, leggy friend.
I have a pretty orb weaver on the porch (or I did last summer). Hope I get another.
We have a few mildly dangerous ones and I have kids.
Our rule is if the spider stays in his world we leave it alone, if it’s in ours, they may be out of luck. The doorway is a neutral zone along with usually the entryway and questionably the kitchen.
Same, I had two Joros this year. Their webs are LITERALLY gold, it’s so cool. They really just chill. Imagine my disappointment when both disappeared before the New Year and I learned their lifespans. :(
Those are beautiful. Not native where I am. It reminds me of the “banana spiders” where I grew up. There used to be these big, majestic nests of them. I ran face first through one as a kid. Definitely a core memory.
Not native here, either, but supposedly not a real threat to anything. They’re everywhere here now. Coolest thing I learned is that their babies can “balloon” and fly for up to hundreds of miles on wind currents. And the little tiny baby spider in the web isn’t a baby, it’s the little bitch-ass male. The size difference is insaaaane.
Poor male spiders in the web with big mama 😢
The Joros are very courteous as well.
When they invaded Georgia they covered hiking paths and walkways. If I ever accidentally disturbed a web, they’d move the web up 3-6ft and hang a warning leaf from a 3ft long string coming off of their web.
Its like they knew they were invasive and wanted to come in peace.
Yes! I walked face first into one or two massive webs and they all moved up a bit! So cool and courteous!
That’s why I only kill the roaches that venture into my house, if I see a roach in the street I leave it alone to thrive that way all future offspring will be selected for street only living.
I don’t kill spiders. They are my unpaid exterminators.
They accept payment in flies.
They can have all of them they can catch. I’ll even toss any I catch into their webs.
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Good, we should make them even more reclusive and smarter. Honestly, an army of highly intelligent bug killers specialized in keeping out of my sight hiding in the interstices of my house sounds like an awesome idea
Yeah, I think it would be kinda cool if the next intelligent species on this planet after we kick the bucket is arachnid.
Children Of Time Intensifies
In our house the rule is spiders can stay if they’re out the way (up high, etc). When they get too close for comfort for my wife’s tolerance limits, I pick them up and put them outside. Spiders are friends.
That almost rhymed, how about:
In our house the spiders can stay
If they’re out of the way.
If they get too close,
Then it’s time to vamo(o)seSpiderbro does an important job eating the more annoying bugs.
I have zero issues with spiders living in my home, they just have to stay out of my sight.
If they evolve to be better at hiding, it’s a win win.
Any flies that fly into my house are given a chance to leave. If I can herd them out the window, they get to live and make lots of new baby flies.
On the other hand, their chances of getting a close up view of the fly swatter increase exponentially with every minute they spend refusing to leave and ignoring the fact that I’m literally showing them the exit.
I once tried making a similar argument to a game warden about only hunting deer during the day. They were not appreciative of the take.
This was after I hit a deer with my car while driving home from Thanksgiving, it was not a good time.
This is why you shouldn’t kill rattlesnakes. If we kill the rattlesnakes that make themselves known, over time they adapt to not rattle before striking.
So they will be just called snakes.
Huh, coincidentally,I just finished reading Children of Time
Envious. The next two books are also great (fourth one coming in a couple months)
Why kill spiders? Oh, maybe it’s Australia.
I’m asking myself whether the humans in Australia became extra dangerous in order to acclimate 🤔
Nah, still doesn’t make sense. They kill the mozzies and the blowies for us.
Leave the big ones alone in Australia. They’re harmless. The ones that need killings are tiny and super venomous.
I have the same thoughts about hitting squirrels with my car.
Not that I do it on purpose or feel good about It, but I tell myself that at least the survivors will pass on their survivor traits to the next generation.
You’d think we’d have accidentally bred smarter deer by now
I think we have. In my area many deer during hunting season spend the time within city limits where it’s illegal to fire guns. I am pretty sure they’ve figured it out.
Deer kill more americans than any other animal. If anything they’re becoming more top heavy and more lethal to make drivers hesitate before hitting them. Eventually evolution will make them explode and send a cloud of shrapnel out when struck by a car.
3310 Atomic Deer
Evolution will eventually turn all deer into adorable looking mooses with nokia cell phone exoskeletons.
Hehe, that was an unintentional Nokia reference on my side.
