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Charlotte lives on the wall of my bathroom near a nightlight and sometimes makes me wonder if she's dead because she mostly just freezes up when I go in there for a few days before suddenly scrambling up and down the wall
She appeared about two weeks back and is always in that small zone on my wall; I'd resolved to move her back outside if she really got in my way but has been quite polite about it all
I assume she's paying the rent as I never see any other bugs and yet she doesn't really put up webs in my view, so, dunno how she's still alive really but she must be eating something
As soon as I posted this she fucking disappeared
Either she's on shift or my cat decided that she wasn't working hard enough and fired her
The giant, thoroughly overgrown Holly bush at my moms house is a favorite locale for those big, golden orb weavers. Sometimes when I go home I'll find the biggest, fattest orb weaver and bless them with my favor by placing an ant or other small insect I found into their web, like a benevolent God delivering unto them a bounty.
The giant, thoroughly overgrown Holly bush at my moms house is a favorite locale for those big, golden orb weavers. Sometimes when I go home I'll find the biggest, fattest orb weaver and bless them with my favor by placing an ant or other small insect I found into their web, like a benevolent God delivering unto them a bounty.
This home is more accurately categorized as a web.
I live near the water, in an-over a century old bouse with likely thousands of spider sized access points.
I'm essentially renting from the spiders.
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Andy JoeWe claim the land for the highlord!The AdirondacksRegistered Userregular
Yeah they're just doing their thing, eatin bugs.
Probably. I live in an apartment building, and I see one on the walls occasionally. Don't really know where they go or what they get up to when they're out of sight.
I don't love spiders, I don't hate them.
We have an accord. As long as they don't startle me by randomly appearing within a foot of me without warning, I let them be. Dropping down on me is a no-no.
I probably should kill brown recluses but no matter how many pictures of them I've seen I've never been able to distinguish them from any other brown spider so I have no idea how many of them have or have not escaped me.
After college when I lived in what had been my grandmothers old old house in the country, we had 2 named spiders. Or possibly 3-4, with multiple spiders inheriting a mantle. Not sure how that works.
One was Obstacle. Obstacle was a pretty sizeable spider of the sort that liked to build giant webs. Obstacle's favored location, 3 summers in a row, was covering the entire top half of the sliding door to the back porch, hence the name. Eventually we just stopped using that door during spider season as it was too much hassle to duck under, and if you didn't you'd get a face full of web and they'd just rebuild the next day. But it was really cool to watch all the moths that got lured in by the indoor light get wrapped up and eaten.
The other spider was Shelob. Shelob lived in the basement. We didn't go there if we could help it. It was a very unfinished basement that had been my grandfather's woodworking shop that was just real musty and basically nothing but boxes of creepy 50s toys and National Geographic magazines. We let her have it as her domain.
One day I got home from work and my shower was cold. Asked my roomates and they said they'd noticed theirs was too. Checked around, found a note that the gas company had been by to replace the meter or something so they'd shut everything off. Called them to get the pilot light turned back on for the water heater. Guy came out, did some meter stuff. Then he goes to the basement to take care of the water heater.
A few minutes later we hear "Oh shit!thumpthumpjesusthumpthumpchristthumpthump! That was the biggest fucking spider I've ever seen! Ya'll about didn't your pilot light lit. If I'd seen it 30 seconds earlier I'da been gone."
A spider did try to sneak into my house the other day by sitting on the front door then falling off into the house when I opened it, but he didn't succeed.
So the other night, I walked out into my garage and turned on the light. The biggest wolf spider I’ve ever seen in my house -a significant portion of my palm - froze out in the middle of the floor. It was basically the vision-is-based-on-movement scene from Jurassic Park.
Anyway, I took another step down the stairs, and it took off running. I could hear it yelling, “Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit!” in its little spider voice, and it was trying to run so fast it was stumbling over itself.
Anyway, Godspeed, little spiderling, and please keep eating all the bugs in my garage.
I got a fairly painful spider bite on my finger a few years ago, so my live and let live attitude has suffered from it. Well, mainly from the fact that it happened in my sleep and not on a field trip to a fancy lab, so I didn't get any super powers.
There was a spider in my basement at an old place that I think I saw like live an entire life of luxury. I saw a web get started in a corner and over the course of several years just fill up to the point that it was a big pile of bug corpses and repeatedly get re-woven. Which I appreciated, though it was gross.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
oh there's also the spider that has its web next to the light on my back porch to easily catch dumb bugs
except I think because it's directly above where I sit to smoke cigarettes and weed, it's been influenced. its web is a fuckin' mess.
Last summer, some kind of small brown orb weaver made a beautiful web on the front porch of my building, using the hinged lid of my mailbox to anchor several of the spokes. She freaked out the first few times I opened the box to get my mail, but she got used to it.
I was afraid a mail delivery person would evict her, but she was there all summer. Rebuilt the web more than once, always in the same place :heartbeat:
I don't know what to choose, I know spiders are in the house, and it's not like i'm hunting them. But a seen spider is a smushed spider, that's just the way of things.
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the desert has a lot of wandering-predator type spiders, and not as many web spinners, since flying insects are rare.
As soon as I posted this she fucking disappeared
Either she's on shift or my cat decided that she wasn't working hard enough and fired her
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It is a blessed thing.
Congratulations.
Well I’m not going in there!
I'm essentially renting from the spiders.
My main thing is that I don't truck with no brown recluses or black widows. Those fuckers get the boot.
Spiders' food doesnt get this high up, and so neither do spiders
I will even try to help when the silly little things get into the bathroom sink and can’t climb out.
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We have an accord. As long as they don't startle me by randomly appearing within a foot of me without warning, I let them be. Dropping down on me is a no-no.
I probably should kill brown recluses but no matter how many pictures of them I've seen I've never been able to distinguish them from any other brown spider so I have no idea how many of them have or have not escaped me.
After college when I lived in what had been my grandmothers old old house in the country, we had 2 named spiders. Or possibly 3-4, with multiple spiders inheriting a mantle. Not sure how that works.
One was Obstacle. Obstacle was a pretty sizeable spider of the sort that liked to build giant webs. Obstacle's favored location, 3 summers in a row, was covering the entire top half of the sliding door to the back porch, hence the name. Eventually we just stopped using that door during spider season as it was too much hassle to duck under, and if you didn't you'd get a face full of web and they'd just rebuild the next day. But it was really cool to watch all the moths that got lured in by the indoor light get wrapped up and eaten.
The other spider was Shelob. Shelob lived in the basement. We didn't go there if we could help it. It was a very unfinished basement that had been my grandfather's woodworking shop that was just real musty and basically nothing but boxes of creepy 50s toys and National Geographic magazines. We let her have it as her domain.
One day I got home from work and my shower was cold. Asked my roomates and they said they'd noticed theirs was too. Checked around, found a note that the gas company had been by to replace the meter or something so they'd shut everything off. Called them to get the pilot light turned back on for the water heater. Guy came out, did some meter stuff. Then he goes to the basement to take care of the water heater.
A few minutes later we hear "Oh shit!thumpthumpjesusthumpthumpchristthumpthump! That was the biggest fucking spider I've ever seen! Ya'll about didn't your pilot light lit. If I'd seen it 30 seconds earlier I'da been gone."
And we all just nodded knowingly.
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Anyway, I took another step down the stairs, and it took off running. I could hear it yelling, “Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit!” in its little spider voice, and it was trying to run so fast it was stumbling over itself.
Anyway, Godspeed, little spiderling, and please keep eating all the bugs in my garage.
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It is naive to think you aren't full of spiders.
still makes me nervous because it's big and right next to my head when I'm opening the door.
my room had a cool spider for a while but not a lot of bugs in my room so it moved on and/or died.
except I think because it's directly above where I sit to smoke cigarettes and weed, it's been influenced. its web is a fuckin' mess.
I have to keep a broom next to the door just so I can leave the house without a face full of web most mornings.
You have at least one window you could use instead of fucking up the spider's day.
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*Bam* Invisible spiderweb you never saw coming right in the face.
I remember seeing this image in high school and the alcohol one was, like, four strings of web that weren't even connected.
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I was afraid a mail delivery person would evict her, but she was there all summer. Rebuilt the web more than once, always in the same place :heartbeat: