Well then maYBE YOU SHOULDN’T ACTIVATE MY INSTINCTIVE FEAR RESPONSE BY MOVING SO DAMN FAST!
see, jumping spiders understand this. they recognize that we’re effectively gods and their lives are entirely in our hands, so they damn well stand still and try to look non-threatening.
Until the jumping
The jumping
At least they have the decency to try to look cute! House centipedes just come right out with “You can hate me but you’ll never catch me fuckers!” as they damn near burn a track into the floor
Jumping spiders are so cute. I taught my 5 year old to call them “spider bros.”
He does not know what a bro is.
That is so cute. Thanks for making me smile today; I needed it.
At least they can’t fly. Yet.
they also eat bedbugs and other harmful pests, they’re awesome other than being fucking terrifying.
I have a super old house that has these in it, along with spiders and other various creepy crawlies (nothing dangerously venomous in the area, save one spider species I’ve never seen, which only produces mild tissue necrosis).
I really don’t mind them -certainly not enough to do anything about them- and the cats like chasing them in the middle of the night, so whatever.
But man, on the rare occurrence I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and see one in the red light of the nightlight, skittering across the wall with a quickness, scares the bejesus out of me. Every. Damn. Time.
Do they ever crawl on you? I’ve found that if I ever spot a spider in my house, in the next week I’ll find it somewhere on me
Literally never, no. Occasionally they hang from their silk and get close, but not super often.
But my spiders know me. They see me every day and know I’m not gunna bother them even if I see them (I even talk to them sometimes) so they give me a wide berth as well. They mostly hang out where I can’t (or won’t) reach, which works for me. Only downside is cleaning up webs a few times a year.
What kind of spiders are crawling on you? That’s pretty unusual from what I understand, unless they just blow down on their silk or whatever? Or maybe you have a lot more spiders than I do and they just hide better ;)
Had a spider bro in my bathroom for a month, one day he disappeared. The very next night I woke up to him crawling on my face. It was unfortunate for us both.
I think the spiders here hide well, so the ones I spot are the risky ones that don’t mind scuttling over me.
Huh. Ngl, that’s super weird, but I’m sorry that’s your experience, because this harmony thing I’ve got going on is pretty sweet, and I wish it for everyone. Tho the random bumblebee that finds her way to my living room 2-3x/yr perplexes me…
Huh, I had a talk with our house spiders. I told them the bathroom and bedrooms were off limits.
So far, none have survived our bathroom encounters.
Not crawling on me but I found one of these mother fuckers in my pants by putting on the pants. Was not excited to find out why my leg hair was moving
Man and my wife and I complain about sugar ants infesting our kitchen.
Yeesh…
Oh yeah, ants I don’t fuck around with. They get liquid bait whenever I see one inside. Fruit flies also get traps (red wine in a glass, cover with plastic wrap and poke some holes, add a drop of dish soap to the wine to break surface tension so they fall in and drown)
But harmless insects/arachnids are fine by me. I grew up in an old house in the woods, catching snakes and bugs in brush piles with my cat. It’s sort of what I expect living to be like, honestly.
Imagine if these things were huge. Like horse sized, or even duck sized.
Have you ever seen starship troopers?
No thank you, I don’t want to imagine this please
I’ve heard of a legend of a man named Joe who lived with cockroaches in his apartment.
I’ve heard stories about another Joe in whose garage we could jam
Never had any cockroaches (do they even exist in Germany?) but I have those from time to time in my basement. Not sure what they eat there.
Go to the USA Southern States if you want to see cockroaches. Holy shit, man! The warm weather and humidity are like steroids to them. They get as big as a mouse, and they don’t care if you have the cleanest building in the world, they’re still going to invade and wake you from your sleep by crawling on your face.
I think I’ll pass
Smart choice.
They eat anything that is smaller than they are legs included. They’ll eat anything from bed bugs to spiders. I even saw one chewing of a wasp at one point.
There’s 100% cockroaches in Germany, there is literally a species of cockroach called “german cockroach”
They eat other insects. All of them, not just roaches.
Well, good to keep them around then.
Very much so but people often kill them for looking nasty. When in reality they totally depend on humans to survive. And provide nothing else than benefits to us. They need warmth of our homes and very specific climate. They can’t survive outdoors.
i mean, inducing a panic attack isn’t very beneficial
Dragonflies
nature’s cool as fuck attack helicopter
Fish: Oooh, dragonfly larva, I’ll help myself to a nice meal
Dragonfly larva: you are mistaken about who is the meal here
It doesn’t even get to pay taxes. Why bother?
Eyelash bugs.
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