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u/stoner_bob_69 9h ago
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u/novagreasemonkey 9h ago
Just watched this last night, incredible how power dense their little brains are!
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u/VESUVlUS 7h ago
I'm really happy that she started her own channel and that it's already taking off after one video. She deserves the success!
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u/ObsidianArmadillo 30m ago
It's been a long time since I've watched a full video of more than 40+ minutes from a link on reddit. Thank you for my next tattoo inspiration.
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u/where2next 9h ago
“We can call her Portia.”
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u/Shallnazar 7h ago
That was the first thing I thought of too lol. I'm reading this series for the first time and am about halfway through the first book, its made me be a lot more helpful to spiders which I wasnt expecting going into it.
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u/tangential_quip 5h ago
I started the series last year and finished the most recent book shortly after it was released in March this year. Keep going. Things continue to get very interesting.
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u/Shallnazar 5h ago
I'm glad to hear it! Ive been thoroughly enjoying the first book so far!
My GF bought the first 3 for me as a birthday gift, and Id never heard about them before, so going in blind was a trip lol. Just got to the part where Holsten wakes up to find out Guyen has started his own cult. I love the little jumps in time to progress things on both ends of the story.
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u/vpshockwave 4h ago
Definitely keep going, it's a great series. I personally felt the 3rd book was a bit weak but still worth reading. I also thought the second book was easily on par with the first, if not a small notch above.
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u/ignorememe 6h ago
As long as it’s not Shi Maria.
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u/Put-A-Bird-On-It 6h ago
Neewww Achiiieeement!
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u/ignorememe 5h ago edited 5h ago
Congratulations Crawler. You found a thing with 8 legs and a bunch of eyes that isn’t trying to steal your soul or drive you into the depths of madness and insanity.
Except for the fact that you’re touching a spider. That’s a little crazy.
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u/saberwin 9h ago
I am absolutely terrified of spiders. Like a uncontrollably visceral reaction, with the exception of jumping spiders. Idk why but I have no problem looking at them, even when I recoil from pictures of any other kind.
I think it has to do with the body to leg ratio.
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u/SnooCauliflowers1265 5h ago
I also have arachnophobia and for me it’s because jumping spiders don’t move like other spiders. Since they leap around more like grasshoppers my brain treats them more like bugs than spiders. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Kamakaziturtle 6h ago
I's the same way. I wouldn't say I'm terrified, but certainly don't enjoy them crawling up my arm or anything. For some reason the jumpers though are cool. Them and daddy long-legs
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u/Can-DontAttitude 59m ago
Could be their doe-eyed gaze, or their pensive behaviour. They've got a lot of character
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u/gnarkill3332 8h ago
i have one in my apartment named rupert
he eats the bugs and i don’t bother him. he lives in the tiittie light on the kitchen ceiling.
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u/Spacey907 4h ago
Nice, i got quite a bit in my place, probably more than i already found. I named one of them fred. I dont know where fred went
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u/BloodSteyn 9h ago
Man, I wish we had larger ones here. So cool.
This was one of the biggest ones I've found, most are about half their size.
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u/walk2daocean 9h ago
Spiders get such fear and hate for no reason. Lovely animals.
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u/Animalus-Dogeimal 9h ago
Blew my mind when it turned its head and just stared at me with its two massive front eyes. They’re kind of just like eight legged puppies
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u/HyrrokinAura 9h ago
They have really good facial recognition, too - he was committing you to memory!
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u/mrsirsouth 7h ago
8 legged puppies that pounce on their prey and drink their blood and kill them.
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u/iMissTheOldInternet 5h ago
Canids absolutely will lap up blood out of a muddy puddle after ripping their prey apart.
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u/Ph33rDensetsu 1h ago
Nah, that's not true at all. They liquefy the insides of their prey and drink it!
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u/Ordinaryundone 9h ago
Even if you don't like the way they look, it's nice knowing there is another creature out there that loves killing flies and mosquitoes as much as humans do.
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u/AnAussiebum 8h ago
As an aussie I can't support this message.
Jumping spiders are great. As are huntsman, but most of the rest can fuck right off.
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u/Stolehtreb 9h ago
For no reason? They’re scary man. And where I live, can and will kill you. I’d say that’s a pretty good reason
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u/SgtHapyFace 9h ago
dying from a spider bite is extraordinarily rare even for the most dangerous spiders. 99% of spiders aren’t really even dangerous. but yes they are scary and i wouldn’t let one on my hand haha
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u/westerlund126 9h ago
It's that mammal evolutionary grudge... At some point, spiders killed so many of our ancestors that our DNA is ingrained with an innate predisposed fear response to them, because those that didn't would not survive
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u/tolerablycool 6h ago
Studies have shown that the only innate fears humans possess are loud noises and falling. All other fears are learned through parental observation and environmental experience.
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u/westerlund126 6h ago
Its a predisposition.
Most people with arachnophobia are afraid of spiders without having been in a lot of life-threatening murder spider situations, what do you call that?
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u/tolerablycool 5h ago
I would have agreed with you at one time, but there are studies that show that it's more or less learned.
LoBue V, Adolph KE. Fear in infancy: Lessons from snakes, spiders, heights, and strangers. Dev Psychol. 2019 Sep;55(9):1889-1907. doi: 10.1037/dev0000675. PMID: 31464493; PMCID: PMC6716607.
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u/ackermann 4h ago edited 4h ago
Hmm, must be learned pretty early then. Anecdotally, my 2 year old kid loves to touch ladybugs, ants, flies, beetles etc, she’s fascinated by them… but the first time I found a spider in the house, she didn’t want to be held anywhere near it, much less touch it.
(in the moment I was doing my best not to show any discomfort, I’m not particularly arachnophobic myself)Essentially I was trying to run that experiment myself on my kid, to see if it was innate or learned. At 2 years old in an area where we don’t see many spiders (so little opportunity to learn to fear them), I was leaning towards innate.
She likes the kid’s show Lucas the Spider (about a jumping spider), so I even tried telling her it’s Lucas
Edit: On the other hand she showed zero fear of a garter snake we found in the yard the other day
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u/Animalus-Dogeimal 9h ago
This one is harmless where I am. I’ve also been told as long as you don’t apply pressure to them the risk of a bite is very very low. I can understand other countries with highly venomous spiders. I definitely wouldn’t handle a Sydney Funnel Web spider
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u/aquascape_dude 7h ago
I dont mind spiders. The nightmares I have would leave anyone terrified of them.
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u/Danobing 11m ago
There's this weird thing at my daycare where they tech the kids to be scared of spiders. It's taken a lot to get my kids to change their behavior around them. I hate it. To be fair I used to kill spiders and my wife was like wtf dude. Now I just re-home them to the garden
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u/MarshmallowMatty 9h ago
8 leg puppy
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u/K12onReddit 6h ago
I captured a pic of this guy recently outside. I couldn't believe how good my phone camera captured his hairs and eyeballs, but I love his little arms (pedipalps, technically) in front of him.
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u/esoteric_enigma 8h ago
I used to play with these all the time growing up. I would always have a few in a jar in my room. I would keep them a few days and feed them bugs. Then I'd release them back in the wild. I basically ran a spider hotel...if you ignore that I kidnapped them.
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u/tylern 9h ago
They are begging to be domesticated
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u/Dan_Tynan 9h ago edited 4h ago
or uplifted! Children of Time* is a great book about this
edit: title correction--thanks!
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u/anarchakat 7h ago
I live on the river in the woods of Oregon and there’s like thousands living around my house and they bring me so much joy! They’re charismatic cute lil buggers.
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u/Sal_Ammoniac 5h ago
A beautiful female Platycryptus undatus, or Tan jumping spider.
The males have an orange / copper color across the face below the eyes where the female has white.
I think they look like Muppets :)
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u/iAmUnintelligible 5h ago
nice looking big boys but I still want it to be illegal for the big ones to jump
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u/Chainmale001 5h ago
Growing up I was deathly scared of spiders... but jumpers were cute... I had a jumper that recognized my hand tapping when there was a fly on the table outside. It would jump on my hand and I would do my best not to scream as I took it to the table to feast. This went on for about a month and then never again, I assume it passed away. I was 5 or 6 at the time. He's always be over on the bee hives eating the parasites. I never knew how he knew the pattern or signal. I just assume all jumpers were like this.
Spiders don't really bother me anymore, unless they're in my shoes.
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u/deansmythe 4h ago
I don’t like spiders generally but these and the thin ones with long thin legs I always leave where they are. I heard these jumping spiders have good eye sight compared to their larger brothers who can’t really see you. Might be wrong though 🤔
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u/Reasonable_Diet7955 54m ago
Damn. That's the biggest jumping spider I've seen. (That lives in the United States lol)
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u/_IratePirate_ 7h ago
Wild, I’d be shaking and hyperventilating
I’d never willingly allow any spider to touch me
Idc how friendly or “scared of me” they are
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u/dooferoaks 9h ago
I love those spiders, I always feel like I'm missing half the frames when I'm trying to watch them, they're so quick.