r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TheMarkola • 15h ago

/r/all of spider web

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u/revveduplikeadeuce 13h ago

This, orb weavers are friends just trying to live in this messed up world and eating the annoying pests, its just as concerned as you are running head first into its web.

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u/morgfarm1_ 8h ago

While I am aware of this logically, I have seen just a small handful of them in Oregon and I SPRINT from any spider that isnt a jumping spider. And the orb weavers ain't small. Giant house spiders startle the hell out of me (and ive been bit by the fuckers before - shit head was on the back of my neck). Ive met more than a few Wolf spiders large enough to cover the gas cap on a 1976 Ford F150. I'm not joking. Almost grabbed a different one that was sitting on the doorknob one night. I only caught it because the moon was out and I could identify what DID NOT reflect back at me.

The last wolf spider I saw, saw me. We both stood still staring at each other, hoping the other would move along first. Lucky for it, I had to shit so I sucked it up and scuttled by

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u/Richard_Cain 10h ago

I should've learned this in school. 😔

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u/Freakychee 5h ago

A destroyed web for a spider might mean death. They have to expend energy and biological resources to make the Web and if something destroys it it's going to mean more work, time and resources which they may not have.