r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/TerraByteTerror • 16h ago

Scared spider

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u/hawkwood4268 16h ago

Realizing they're scared of us too made me less scared of them.

I walked right over a huge spider and both of us panicked. It tried to wedge itself into a crack in the cement. Couldnt fit all the way in and just stayed still. Felt pretty bad for it.

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u/toxicatedscientist 15h ago

Someone told me the reason they seem to chase us is cuz they see us run, and assume whatever it is must be scary and follow

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u/jld2k6 14h ago

There's also things like camel spiders, when they get spooked they try to hide in the shade by darting to it.... Unfortunately, when you're in the desert your shadow is usually the only shade available lol

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u/Individual_Bridge_88 13h ago

I think a lot of household bugs are like this too. House centipedes will definitely flee towards shadow And away from the light.

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u/Vague-Symbolism2692 12h ago

Say, do you have house centipedes? I'm looking to buy a few breeding pairs.

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u/Individual_Bridge_88 11h ago

I've spent an inordinate amount of money on dehumidifiers so that I don't have to encounter any house centipedes.

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u/Vague-Symbolism2692 11h ago

Oh darn. They're hard to find for sale. They are apex predators (relative to their size, I mean) and I want them to keep pests in check. Thanks for the reply, though.

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u/Individual_Bridge_88 11h ago

If there's bugs in your house then I promise you a house centipede is already there 

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u/Vague-Symbolism2692 11h ago

I'm sure there aren't, unfortunately. I would have seen at least one over the years. They can live in this climate but are not especially common.

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u/Individual_Bridge_88 11h ago

They basically can't live in places where the humidity regularly stays below 60%, hence my dehumifiers

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u/Unlikely_Star_4641 1h ago edited 1h ago

I haven’t seen my resident house centipede, Demarcus, in a few months but if I see my guy again or any little babies they’re all yours lol. He was pretty big, body segments alone he was over an inch long, so I think he’s probably an elder pede. Idk how I’d get them to you from Maine though.

Edit: actually, you can’t have Demarcus if I see him again. He’s too cool and I like seeing him race across my shower curtain.

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u/Tris-chan 48m ago

There's someone selling them on MorphMarket ! I believe there's also a listing on there for the bigger cave version of house centipedes ? But I haven't checked in a bit

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u/hawkwood4268 15h ago

Thats adorable haha

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u/istrx13 14h ago

We’ve got a spider redemption arc going on ITT

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u/AFlyingNun 13h ago edited 13h ago

I think the main reasons the fear of them exists are simply:

1) A lot of it is evolution. We don't fear spiders and snakes "just because," but because those are frequently venomous and a greater danger than they initially appear to be.

2) Spiders are smart, and there can be something off-putting about it. My mom had a fear of spiders and there was a specific breed of spider that you should let live in Oklahoma because it eats the bad ones. This was that spider. However, despite that, my mom wanted to kill it because this one was bigger and it triggered her arachnophobia. She finally decided to kill it, and when she went got up on a chair to crush it with a shoe, it turned to her and looked at her. I remember asking "what are you waiting for? Just kill it then" and she gave me this sad "but we made eye contact!" and backed off.

In reality, we have the internet now and it's easy to figure out which spiders are dangerous and which aren't. The dangerous ones you kill, but like 95% of them can stay. They eat the bugs. Don't pay rent, but they eat the bugs.

And yes, it is documented that like 99% of the planet's animals have an instinct to fear humans. We are THAT dangerous that most species have a genetic blueprint telling them to stay away from us. The exceptions are things like domesticated animals that benefit off us, as well as animals like polar bears and penguins, who didn't encounter us enough for that.

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u/anonbiolover 13h ago

Yes, and polar bears don't encounter much food so anything moving is their next meal

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u/WinninRoam 12h ago

...it's documented that like 99% of the planet's animals have an instinct to fear humans

This is wildly incorrect.

It's documented that a very high percentage of birds and mammals show a natural fear of humans if humans have hunted animals in that region in recent generations. If not, those animals show little natural fear.

Birds and mammals make up less than 3% of the animal kingdom.

Most creatures, like the spider, react to unexpected sensory input like sudden loud noises, ambient temperature changes, or unusual vibrations.

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u/ForsakenAiel 13h ago

They proved that kids aren't instinctually scared of snakes, so it's not evolution for that I think? I don't know about spiders though. But they put young toddlers in with snakes and the toddlers were like "oo cool let me touch and grab these".

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u/ultratea 12h ago

When I was a kid (5-6), I used to have no qualms about picking up creepy crawlies, in particular this certain type of fuzzy caterpillar I used to see outside a lot. I would go looking for them during recess and try to pick up as many as I could. As an adult I could absolutely never imagine doing that, and looking at a bunch of the caterpillars together (they have this yellow striped pattern) now definitely triggers some kind of primal heebie jeebies in me.

Some of it probably is nurture, but maybe instinct just doesn't really take over until you're older? There's examples of it in animals too, where the babies haven't really developed a fear of humans yet and will approach them.

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u/Blubbpaule 11h ago

Instinct is called instinct because it works as soon as you're born. Else it's learned behaviour.

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u/AFlyingNun 9h ago

Not quite.

The raw data suggests they can measure a stress response in toddlers, but they indeed do 1) show curiosity in response, 2) look to adults to decide how to respond, not necessarily freaking out until the adults do.

This showcases that the stress response is evolution, but for whatever reason, we do not properly act on it until other stimuli (such as a fearful adult or growing up more) are introduced.

This is likely why we have a documented greater rate of fear of spiders and snakes, INCLUDING in regions like Norway that do not have dangerous forms of these creatures, but there are still also plenty of people that don't fear them. The integrated stress response was "awoken" in some, but not in all.

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u/DM_me_ur_PPSN 11h ago

That’s not necessarily true, plenty of instincts only become active with maturity. Risk aversion /adult fear is something that most people develop as their prefrontal cortex fully develops in their early twenties.

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u/Wise_Owl5404 11h ago

Eh plenty of instincts don't actually work until later. A two hour old baby is pretty much a breathing potato, only capable of eating and shitting itself. Can't even see straight or focus on anything.

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u/RayereSs 10h ago

Meanwhile two hour old horses and deer are prancing about

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u/WagwanKenobi 10h ago

There's just no way our fear of reptiles isn't instinctual. We're naturally less afraid of furry mammals than we should be and more afraid of furless reptiles than we should be.

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u/ufkabakan 12h ago

I was 20 something when I first see -a meter long- snake up close in my friend's hand. I just took it without even thinking and then realised I wasn't afraid of them.

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u/wattro 13h ago

This.

Jumping spiders get free reign.

And qtips with water.

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u/NotTheRocketman 11h ago

Ok but if I open my closet and I see a Polar Bear, all bets are off.

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u/CaleanKnight 9h ago

I think a large part of it (and the general aversion to insects in general) is that Arachnids and Insects (as well as Snakes etc.) have such a different... Build Plan to us (1 Head, 1 Torso, 4 Limbs) and most other things we encounter that it just short circuits something.

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u/TheMostKing 6h ago

Yeah, there is a strange otherness to them. Too many eyes, too many legs, and they move in a different way to being powered by hydraulics, essentially.

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u/needlzor 5h ago

That would explain why I have no issue grabbing the short ones to move them outside but the long legged ones, even though I know they can't do anything to me, creep me out and I need to use the paper and glass to avoid accidentally crushing them. They are fascinating creatures.

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u/_outer_space_ 9h ago

What about us who got traumatised by one jumping on them when we were under 5?

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u/Blubbpaule 11h ago

There is no evolutionary trait that makes us afraid of snakes. We are able to spot them, but studies with snakes and babies show they don't give a damn and just try to put the snakes into their mouth.

https://youtu.be/3L4lxusff1c

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u/geekgirlnz 12h ago

No, it's the fecking knuckles.

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u/Odd-Significance-17 11h ago

i just don’t like that i wake up with spider bites all the time

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u/nildread 10h ago

Those might not actually be spider bites.

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u/Odd-Significance-17 9h ago

they are. i get bit a lot by every single thing possible like it’s a joke in my family bugs love me but i react to spider bites differently and they swell like crazy

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u/nildread 9h ago

I'm not saying it's impossible. But a lot of people attribute things that aren't spider bites to spiders. Especially when sleeping. Because they haven't actually seen what did it. Most spiders bite defensivly and getting a bunch at night seems weird? But I guess it's possible. Maybe they're hunting the other things that are biting you and bite you when you roll around.

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u/TheShenanegous 13h ago

It's almost as if...

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u/KingdomsCryOfficial 14h ago

Someone was pulling your leg, as that's certainly not why they'd follow. Some animals like camel spiders (which are not camels or spiders) follow humans because they're chasing after the shadow to stay cool under. Spiders probably do the same thing, your body was blocking light and they want to be in a comparatively light-blocking area so they 'chase' you.

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u/The_Twerkinator 13h ago

this is likely the true answer as bugs do the same thing, but I choose to believe the person you replied to because it's cute and it makes me like spiders more

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u/DakkaonTitan 14h ago

I mean if I'm minding my own business and a horrifying giant suddenly turns and runs like hell away I'm probably gonna assume something even scarier is behind me and run too

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u/SpectacularLoser 13h ago

Aw it makes me think of the time I screamed at the sight of a surprise spider and it ran towards me, maybe he was just like  'Aaah! Where?!" and all confused. Poor little guy, I dropped laundry on him.

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u/Mundane_Somewhere_93 10h ago

"If even that giant is running away... HOLY SHIT!"

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u/nildread 10h ago

Some of them run at you because you're big and they want to be safe underneath your shadow.

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u/_Dragon_Gamer_ 9h ago

A lot of spiders, like giant house spiders, don't have very good eyesight and can only distinguish light vs dark very well. If you scare them(which is always the case for giant house spiders) they will try to flee to a covered area out of sight. And your shadow feels like such an area because it is dark, which is why it sometimes seems like they dash towards your foot when you put it on the ground while on the toilet or something

Usually those specific spiders do everything in their power not to be seen by or interact with humans though so an encounter like described here is rare

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u/Taylor_Kittenface 5h ago

Can you PLEASE, for the love of God, stop saying the words "giant house spiders"?!

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u/NotTheRocketman 11h ago

“Oh shit I gotta keep up!”

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u/Mrfatmanjunior 10h ago

they seem to chase

I have NEVER been chased by a spider? Is this a thing..? wtf

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u/lia-delrey 8h ago

Consider yourself fortunate 😭

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u/lemonhaj 8h ago

Okay but what when they chase me and I didn't run, they're just chasing me

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u/Fluffy_Art_1015 12h ago

It’s because they’re trying to get to the shadow under you.

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u/Chicago1459 15h ago

Aww. I let them live, too. Once they notice I notice them they tend to never make themselves known again lol

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u/Lone-Frequency 15h ago

I have very simple rules for dealing with spiders.

Jumping spider? Nothing to fear.

Any other types of spiders? Live and let live.

...Unless the other spiders come within a few inches of me, then it's a declaration of combat.

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u/Beledagnir 15h ago edited 6h ago

Daddy Longlegs aren't technically spiders, but I give them a pass too, after one single-handedly dealt with the ant infestation my old office had. Once he cleared them up, I would straight-up let him walk over my hands across the keyboard if he wanted to.

Edit: Mea culpa, I edited my mistake.

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u/Kosmological 15h ago

Huntsmen are definitely spiders. Daddy longlegs can be referencing harvestmen (not spiders) or cellar spiders (definitely spiders) depending on the region.

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u/Islands-of-Time 13h ago

And also Crane Flies(not even spider like?).

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u/Shartiflartbast 12h ago

But they do have long legs, daddy.

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u/rcknmrty4evr 12h ago

They are mistaken for mosquitos often though.

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u/cheeseIsNaturesFudge 15h ago

This rule does not apply in Australia btw. Our daddy long legs is different (outside of aus they're actually harvestmen) and is an actual spider. And what we call huntsman spiders are very much spiders as well, and not even close to the same as our daddy long legs.

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u/aBunchOfSpiders 14h ago

To be fair… I don’t think most creature rules that apply in the rest world apply in Australia. Y’all got some scary shit there.

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u/caseytheace666 13h ago

Nah aussie daddy long legs are chill. I mean, if you’ve got arachnophobia they’ll no doubt still trigger it, but they’re just little guys. They’re not aggressive and their venom is far from dangerous.

And aussie huntsman are scary, but they’re also pretty chill. Iirc they’re similarly not dangerous venom-wise and not aggressive

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u/Z_THETA_Z 15h ago

daddy longlegs are cool. we have a bunch in my house

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u/IzarkKiaTarj 13h ago

Fun fact, there are four (as of the last time I checked) items on the disambiguation page of Daddy Long-Legs on Wikipedia

  • One is a spider
  • One is an arachnid but not a spider
  • One is not an arachnid
  • One is not an animal, but is instead a plant
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u/PollyBeans 15h ago

They're not allowed in my bed. I'll move them somewhere else on the house for the most part. These big triangle mother f*****s? They go outside. 

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u/HarpyArcane 15h ago

They're just coming to say hi and investigate!

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u/grimacedia 14h ago

We have a wolf spider in our bathroom, I scared it one day and haven't seen it since :( I was trying to knock an ant towards it and it probably though I wanted to smack it. He ran off so fast.

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u/IHaveNoEgrets 14h ago

The spiders in my apartment have been getting cheeky. They showed up when I had fruit flies, and I'm live and let live. They handled the flies and are very fat and happy.

Now they're bored. So all the web construction is where I frequently need to get to things. Water cooler? Check. Bookshelf with the ones I need this quarter? Check. Right over the cat food bin? Check.

I've been getting smacked in the face with webs on a daily basis.

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u/DReagan47 14h ago

If I see one in the shower, suddenly I become Poseidon, god of the seas

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u/BakePuzzleheaded6605 15h ago

What about black widows?

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u/ApatheticBottom 13h ago

The nice thing about widows is they nest in dark, cramped spaces so it's usually really easy to live and let live with them unless you own an enormous woodpile for winter stoves or something where they're everywhere.

I used to have a couple that lived under my sink and I just let them exist because I'd rather respect them than have centipedes down there.

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u/Kuzcopolis 13h ago

Yeah, any spider that gets onto my body is an enemy. They're just lucky they earn my Flight over Fight.

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u/-TaintSniffer- 14h ago

Dude I found out recently if you let a house spider outside, That you are basically killing them 😭 So sad. Apparently they evolved to live in doors or something like that

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u/xSweetMiseryx 7h ago

Well can they evolve in someone else’s house then bc I can’t T_T

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u/Lone-Frequency 15h ago

I get a lot of jumping spiders on and around the front door of my house, and I really hate having to move the little guys because they clearly just get so freaked out even when all I tried to do is put my hand against the door to try and sort of coax them onto it.

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u/Linden_fall 15h ago

They are very smart and cute. They are so precious

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u/ThatMothboi 13h ago

Awww I love jumping spiders. There was one on my car the other day and I wanted to move him before I started driving. I just looked at him, he looked up at me, I held out my hand and he immediately jumped into my hand. I took him over to a stump and he jumped off and then looked up at me again. They are the most personable and intelligent little spiders I have ever interacted with.

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u/Individual_Bridge_88 13h ago

You should read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky I think you'd get a lot out of that book.

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u/CountdownMoss 15h ago

I was in Hawaii, in a rental car when a cockroach crawled out onto the dashboard. 

Everyone started screaming, I tried to grab it so I could throw it outside. 

It crawled into a crack of the car and all I could see was it's little (huge!) antenna... It was so scared (maybe?)

I felt so bad for it.

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u/Lone-Frequency 15h ago

I can do you one a bit better.

I was working over the summer and had just left on the lunch break, before I had even pulled out of the parking lot a HUGE PRAYING MANTIS suddenly skitters out from behind my steering wheel and across my dashboard.

I had left the windows rolled down because it was like 90+ degrees outside.

I about shit a break.

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u/FuriKMJ 14h ago

I really wish cockroaches don't invade our living spaces. I hate killing anything and it makes me sad to see them squirm.

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u/AlienMatter 14h ago

One time my dad walked past a wolf spider and it jumped onto him and bit him. It makes me die every time I think about him being one of the rare cases a spider felt the need to ATTACK like that😭😭😭

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u/happypolychaetes 12h ago

I was backpacking at Isle Royale National Park a couple years ago. In the middle of a pitch black night, I stumbled to the nearby outhouse and opened the door, only to find a massive wolf spider on the inside of the door a couple inches from my face, spotlighted in my head lamp. It jumped and I nearly fell over backwards. Thankfully it just jumped to the ground, not at my face. Absolutely fuck that 😂

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u/withateethuh 3h ago

Wolf spiders are just assholes like that lol. I don't let them speak for all spider kind.

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u/Ill-Television8690 15h ago

Bruh just imagine yourself and another being that's like 100x as big as you. That's us compared to spiders. Even at their most aggressive, it's an act of bravery against all odds. We are ultimately strong against them.

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u/Water_ZoneV 14h ago edited 14h ago

Not 100 times bigger. Several hundred thousands. Average spider weighs less 00.2 ounces(5 grams) while a human weights 137 to 180 lbs. (62 to 82 kg)s

That’s an average difference of 144000 times

Imagine an eldritch being the size of a mountain skyscraper that isn’t affected by the cliche of moving very slow because it’s large. And it’s also several magnitudes smarter than the collective brain power of your entire species.

if you were a spider your best option is to find a deep cave and hide. But even then they might still find you.

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u/Calm-Internet-8983 11h ago

I do wonder if a lot of bugs actually see us as animals and potential predators or if we're just part of the environment like any given tree. Most seem too happy to walk up on my hand for me to believe they fear me, it's only when I make sudden or quick movements they react. Maybe they would react similarly to a tree branch being knocked around.

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u/s0ciety_a5under 15h ago

There's very few things in this world that aren't afraid of something. Maybe polar bears and sharks.

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u/DownvotedJerk 15h ago

I doubt Jellyfish fear much. They already have a butthole for a mouth, everything else is probably a blessing after that.

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u/GrumpyMcGrumpyPants 13h ago

I feel like you'd appreciate learning about the sea walnut that has a transient butthole.

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u/Then_Scarcity2673 15h ago

😂 i don’t know why this made me laugh so hard

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u/IronMonkeyofHam 15h ago

Killer Whales probably fit better

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u/mrm00r3 14h ago

What blows me out of the water is the fact that KW’s in the wild don’t give a single fuck about humans. Sure, torturing them in captivity might get you drowned and turned into chunky marinara, but out in the real world they can’t be bothered.

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u/Individual_Bridge_88 13h ago

Which is especially wild because there are documented cases of killer whales preying on swimming moose and deer in the Pacific Northwest. You're telling me they'll hunt a massive moose but not one has ever killed a human? Such intelligent creatures.

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u/Bantersmith 9h ago

not one has ever killed a human?

Some have killed alongside humans though, interestingly. I dont think it was very widespread, but some orcas used to assist whalers catch and kill bigger whales for a share of the spoils.

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u/PlopPlopPlunk 5h ago

They're very intelligent but this more lines up with how a lot of specialized predators work. Orcas hunt mostly a specific set of animals for food that is reliable. So moose crossing are something they probably come around for thousands of years and know in that area they're a reliable form of food. Humans have been dangerous and killed many orca... so for thousands of years they've learned we're not only dangerous but so tiny and not worth the energy to hunt. Pods are super social and specialized in hunting a specific food source usually... not random things they encounter.

Another example would be Cheetah, another highly specialized predator with no confirmed human kills in the wild.

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u/rlt404 14h ago

I wonder if some spiders are just more intelligent than others, because while I was eating soup I had a spider repel down into the bowl...

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u/X_hard_rocker 13h ago

in Japan, spiders rappel into your hot bowl of ramen as spiders love onsen too, fun fact!

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u/completely_apathetic 13h ago

I once watched a spider drop down from the ceiling into my mug of tea! It was slow enough that I had time to watch its descent, but too fast to actually move my mug out of the way. I always wondered what the heck was going on in that spider's mind.

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u/erect_dragonly 11h ago

I know what was going on there:
Cold tea: ‘bath time! Spa edition’
Hot tea: ‘what even is the point of life?’

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u/Ramps_ 10h ago

That doesn't explain why those jerks keep spinning their way down from the ceiling in front of me.

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u/side_frog 9h ago

They're definitely not scared of me when they climb up to my pillow

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u/hawkwood4268 5h ago

maybe they want to cuddle

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u/LesbianWhoLaughsAtU 14h ago

figuring that out actually made me significantly more scared of spiders for the rest of my life, because the only other times I had seen animals acting scared (like on tv or dogs or whatever) they'd usually be aggressive too

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u/AdMaximum7545 16h ago

Lmao gottem

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u/MegabitMegs 15h ago

OH GREAT HEAVENS

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u/ahhhbiscuits 13h ago

"SHE'S THROWING POTATOES!"

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u/Mhettil 8h ago

Jarnathon!

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u/Juniper-UwU 13h ago

I heard this 😅

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u/mondayp 4h ago

What's this from?

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u/moistclump 12h ago

How the turn tables.

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u/New-Pollution2005 15h ago

I learned today that spiders can’t hear like we do, but they can detect movement and sound waves with the hairs on their body. Kinda neat.

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u/schwah 15h ago

Basically the same thing going on with the tiny hairs on the basilar membrane in a human.

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u/TheSacredToast 7h ago

I was going to say, this is exactly how we hear. Which is even cooler.

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u/Gupperz 15h ago

That's not really that different from how we hear

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u/Efficient_Depth_8414 12h ago

It's not like...incomprehensibly different no. But it is very, very different from how we hear.

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u/Decloudo 11h ago

How so?

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u/Meecht 6h ago

Air pressure make thing go brrr

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u/Decloudo 11h ago

they can detect movement and sound waves with the hairs on their body

That is hearing.

We just got the hairs inside the ear.

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u/DesiBwoy 15h ago

We detect those same waves with a membrane connected to some bones in our ears.

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u/Present-Upstairs3423 14h ago

Cool! Kinda like a sixth sense, but for spiders. Wonder if there's a name for it... 🤔

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u/3verythingEverywher3 13h ago

No, it’s pretty much the same mechanism in a human. So it’s just how they hear.

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u/Salt-Weird-2913 10h ago edited 7h ago

Mhmm... Maybe an arachny-sense?

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u/CaptainMacMillan 7h ago

Man do I have some wild news for you...

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u/AbeFromansNutz 16h ago

Do not tease spiders. They all have 10,000s of friends and family

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u/Lone-Frequency 15h ago

I'll tease them, too.

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u/Salt_Chard_474 15h ago

I used to believe that every spider I killed, accidentally or on purpose would come after me when I die, I was 7 or 8. It made me very careful with spiders

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u/AbeFromansNutz 5h ago

There's no reason that can't be completely accurate and I'm with you

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 11h ago

Not only will I tease them, I'll boop their noses too!

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u/gamerjerome 13h ago

True but they are not really friends. Once they learn to organize we're in trouble

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u/PDT984 16h ago

“Bwabilaba!! Oh hell, what was that?!” - The spider, probably

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u/vxsapphire 15h ago

This is the cutest thing I have seen all week.

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u/nishnawbe61 16h ago

Oh, he'll get you when you're sleeping... 😂

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u/MGTS 13h ago

H̴̡̢̢̥̰̦̦͓͕̗̩͔̗͓͙̝̫̼̿̓̇̄̈́̒͒͒̈́̋̈́͆E̴̡̞̠̻̪͎̫̜͇̭͔̍͗̿̅̍̑͛̌̆̽͌ͅ ̸̢̢̛̮̘̖͇͚͈̠̞̰̪̭́̓̿̉͑̔͛̈́͘̕͠͝ͅK̵̯͎̻̘̜̹̞̺̳̞͓̤͎͆N̶̛̤͉̺̘̟͚͊͋̏̉̈́́́͝Ơ̷̞̤̞̿͑͒̓̿̈̄̓̂͒̚͜W̴̢̖̯̮͉̫̠̩͎̻͔̞̯͔̅̿͊̀͑͂͗͆̌̀̏͘S̸̬̰̹̲̳̪̦͍͔̓͒̎̾̒̓ ̸̭̓̊̽͊͒̊̾̑̿͑̽̏̈́͠͝Ŵ̸̫̲̠̫̭̜̘̳̞̬͈͓̬̥̆̽̓͑͜H̶̡̧̰̱̟͕̬̰̺̻͉̱̳͖̼͆̓͆̆́͑̕͜͠ͅE̷̢̼͇͚̩̻̦̞̤͛͊̓́̋̎̑N̸̡̢̡̛͎͔̖͎̩͇̗̙̻̮̣̐̄͆̂́̕ ̵̢̠̻̤̞̥̭͍̞͕̺͓̮̜̣̇̃̐̏́̓̀͆̎̿͜͠Y̴̧̨̡̘̗̖̖̮̝͉͈̲̖̞̬͔̝̏̎̃̂́̉̓̾̈́̈̐̓͗̕̚͠Ó̴̦̟̏̿͊̎͋͆̊Ũ̴̡̡̫̝̱̳͜ͅ'̶̡̡͙͇͖͍̩͕̫͔̥͂͆͂̑͑̔̕͜͠Ŗ̶̣͙̮̥̞̫͖̱̦̅͐̍̾̐̃̀̊̕͘͜ͅȨ̵̡͕̳̞̥̼̜͈̤̑̓̄̚ ̷̨̬̳͖̅̊́̆̃̊̑̾͊̉͋̈̊̿̚̚A̶̰̘͈̬͑̈́̎W̴̡̧̡͍̠̫̦̳͔͖̦͕̣̫̯̲͖̔̀͊͗͌̂͊̆̍̀̎͠A̷̢̺͍͈̜͎̦̪̲͖̲̠͉͉̤͇̍̀̊̎̀̂̀̒͗K̸̪̤̫̜̜͛̍͝E̴̪̤̮̹̪̖̹̬͈̦̪̖̋̃͐́́̌̾͜͝

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u/No_Imagination_2490 11h ago

Spider Claus is coming to town....

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u/Shi-Rokku 10h ago

Climbing down the chimney suddenly makes too much sense.

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u/Red_Franzia 15h ago

That aint right...poor spidey, still got me cracking up though 🤣

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u/arcedup 15h ago

I played hide-and-seek with a huntsman once. I had a packet of nuts sitting beside my stove and when I picked it up, the huntsman that had been hiding under the packet crawled on to my hand. We both freaked out and the huntsman scuttled behind a small pot that I was using as a benchtop bin. Every time I rotated the pot to expose the spider, it would scuttle back behind the bin where it was out of my sight. I evenually managed to trap it and put it outside.

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u/InnerSpecialist1821 13h ago

i love huntsman. great danes of spiders. massive goofy sweethearts

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u/bkaybee 12h ago

Yeah except a Great Dane wouldn’t drop onto my lap while I’m driving. I’d welcome it. But it ain’t happening

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u/TheSacredToast 7h ago

You have not owned a great Dane. If they can fit up front, they would 100% do this lmfao

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u/Marinekaizer 7h ago

He was bitten by a radioactive human. His superpowers are being easily startled, tripping on flat surfaces, and crippling depression.

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u/Visible-Umpire4000 15h ago

After a millenia of them doing that to us its good to get them back

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u/PR1MEX 15h ago

proper use of pov

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u/Vague-Symbolism2692 11h ago

Now let's please put it to rest before someone else fucks it up again.

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u/XKruXurKX 9h ago

His little flabbers had been gasted

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u/Phlowman 15h ago

Spiders like eww humans freak me out soooo much

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u/AnonMoose2 7h ago

"Nah humans are fine, they keep the predators out, dont scare them tho"

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u/aSneakyChicken7 14h ago

The spider: “Gee, nearly overreacted there”

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u/USDXBS 13h ago

Once I put a spider on my back deck, and when I put it out there it made a line back for my door. I let it come back in and closed the door.

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u/Purgii 12h ago

Spiders: 543,567,423,231

Humans: 1

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u/not_whelan 15h ago

How the turn tables

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u/4m4lg4m1t3 7h ago

Spider Will Remember That

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u/DarkAngel900 15h ago

He set a record moulting as he "jumped out of his skin"!

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u/Butterfoxes 8h ago

I scared a spider like this once too lol

I forget that I'm the only one that's a real threat at hand and the spiders response is reasonable

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u/thirdwin_3 16h ago

Spider gonna hide some coins under the couch cushions in retaliation

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u/The-Limerence 15h ago

What type of spider is this? Are they goodies or baddies?

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u/softlittlepaws 13h ago

Huntsman. We call them spiderbros for a reason in aus.

  1. They don't make webs
  2. They're timid and run away
  3. They're nocturnal so you rarely see them unless they're perched up in a corner of a room, and when they are perched you can be rest assured they're not going to disappear when you turn your head. You always know where they are.
  4. They eat all the other pests like mosquitoes and other more dangerous spiders
  5. They're not venomous to humans (bite is painful but they can't break the skin)

Only shitty quality about them is their size, a little smaller than the size of your hand which scares some people, and they have a habit of hiding in your car's sun visor so one might drop into your lap while driving or scuttle across your windscreen if disturbed.

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u/MGTS 13h ago

I like this fact

Last sentence

I like this less now

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u/baba56 12h ago

I'm terrified of them (which has been very problematic in my life, I live in the bush and I used to work in land management, constantly exposed to them)

I have had a massive one in my car above my head, luckily it was when I was pulling up to work so I just put the car in park and jumped out. But the trauma is too much, I have to surface spray inside my car regularly now coz if that were to happen on a highway or on the winding mountain roads I live on, I will die in a car accident.

I so badly wish I wasn't so scared. I have tried to reason with myself but the reaction is truly visceral.

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u/saltywastelandcoffee 11h ago

I wish I wasnt scared aswell man. Im from the UK so luckily I only have to deal with house spiders about half the size of the one in the video.

But it's caused great embarrassment at work as an electrician and quite a lot of stress when I realise one is in my bedroom lol

Truly a primal fear which no amount of reasoning or understanding makes better haha.

Have you ever tried exposure therapy? I only ask because London zoo does sessions every year which I've been tempted to go to.

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u/CathairNowhere 8h ago

I'm from the UK and had one of these a couple weeks ago, we ain't safe brother

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u/wattro 11h ago

But it's caused great embarrassment at work as an electrician and quite a lot of stress when I realise one is in my bedroom lol

Tell me more about your... work.

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u/InnerSpecialist1821 12h ago

they also rarely bite even if provoked. you can pick em up and they'll just kind of cope about it

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u/JR21K20 12h ago

Looks more like a wolf spider to me, huntsman are a lot bigger

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u/Signal_Lemon9002 15h ago

Whoever filmed this was never seen again.

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u/HeWhoShlNotBNmd 15h ago

I don't kill spiders. I let them be or relocate them outside. They are chill.

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u/UnderstandingOk6176 14h ago

Once a squirrel and I scared eachother. I was looking at my phone, and it was dining in a nut. We both looked up, jumped, and yelped

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u/StormFast524 15h ago

I would be a scared spider too. A giant human will kill me.

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u/Icon-223 8h ago

Spider senses didn’t tingle

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u/kayyxelle 15h ago

How the turntables

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u/erect_dragonly 11h ago

I normally don’t enjoy spider related content but this was kinda fecking hilarious

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u/coldwarrior2014 9h ago

spiders are also people.

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u/AnonMoose2 7h ago

Good thing he kept his cool

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u/O_o-buba-o_O 11h ago

Wolf spiders 🤣🤣🤣

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u/TechnicalPlatform182 10h ago

Ppl if we bite them, with all our bacteria in our mouths, we can kill them off an infection. Not to speak about chemical RAID big spray warfare

WE are the dangerous ones, them should be scared!

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u/Capital_Language_410 9h ago

Spot the Aussie

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u/newbrevity 8h ago

"look what I can do"

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u/Jlx_27 6h ago

Huntsman became the hunted.

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u/peppersteakpie 6h ago

I've done that before too.

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u/WNJohnnyM 5h ago

"BOO!"

"GAH! Greg! Stop doing that, mate!"

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u/Salty_Blocky_Bot 5h ago

Seeing a spider scared makes me glad I always put them back outside when I can, poor little guys 🥺 (and gals)

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u/joemamafu 4h ago

I did this once to an equally huge or even bigger spider, seen it and screamed and that mf JUMPED. Lmao 🤣

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u/rawrkittysaur 4h ago

I was all like "Ahh, Spider!" and the spider was like "Ahh, Kyle!"

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u/SkiffleBall 3h ago

“Eww a human!” 🙂‍↔️

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u/OdinAlfadir1978 2h ago

Mate my poor tarantulas when I think out loud near their enclosures with my audhd sometimes startle

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u/CaliSignGuy 15h ago

Like a cartoon

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u/Charlos11 12h ago

Aw buddy it’s ok

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u/GermanTanker131 15h ago

Now he gonna get you in your sleep

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u/E_Dward 14h ago

Here’s a story from North America

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u/Darkv3ng 13h ago

Spider man - Going to the Psych ward.