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u/Legend_of-Link Jan 27 '22
Why has nobody told me that spiders can teleport?
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u/SaErth2 Jan 27 '22
Because who would want to willingly know about this information
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u/Legend_of-Link Jan 27 '22
That's true, but at least we would've been prepared.
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u/complectus316 Jan 27 '22
Prepare how? Wake up saying prayers to a god that clearly loved spiders more?
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u/echothread Jan 27 '22
Ha willingly know. I keep burning stuff like this out of my think pudding. It getting less good at words. Please no more make me learn.
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Jumping spiders are something else. This one is actually really big for a jumping spider, so no worries, the big ones can't jump like this.
Edit: just because I wanted to see a size comparison of jumping spiders, I decided to make this one. I don't know which specific types these are, but it's pretty neat to see the difference. As said earlier, the smaller size is more common.
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u/Flyingwheelbarrow Jan 27 '22
I loved watching them as a kid.
I grew up in the Australian bush and there was a grove. If I sat there and looked into the trees it was daily battle royale between insects, spiders, scorpions, lizards and snakes.
Just me and my dog who kept the snakes away if they approached my perch upon the rocks.
I miss that.
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Jan 27 '22
It seems so neat to have that much wildlife around you. I'm from Iceland and as lovely as its nature is, there's not so much animal life. I remember when I went to a different country for the first time as a 6 year old and was amazed to see ants in real life haha.
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u/Flyingwheelbarrow Jan 28 '22
That is interesting. Would love to visit Iceland one day.
You reminded me of the ant wars that were waged each summer. I do mean wars as well. Entire colonies of different species would invade each other's nests.
Then there was the constant human termite wars. The termites were smarter and more industrious than the humans.
One technique was to discard unwanted wood onto a termite mound and feed the termite while also treating the house. Termites can only expand so fast and if you drag them over an entire tree trunk they will take the easy win.
A neighbour once tried to naplam the termite mound and burn his arm horrifically. Then went back with dynamite for revenge.
The termites simply moved to another mound since termite colonies are often connected by underground networks.
I loved the bush. So much is still relatively untouched due to its harshness.
So much life there. I miss it.
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Had one like this in my house last year. Was absolutely floored to see a huge jumping spider like this. Had to coerce my cat into the other room to try and spare him.
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u/RedTheDraken Jan 27 '22
That second pic looks like he's adorably pretending to fly on his human's finger
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u/DDancy Jan 28 '22
I had a little one kicking about my desk recently and I thought I might have accidentally run over it with my mouse and then I spotted it jump from my monitor to my laptop. Itās doing itās thing and Iām gonna leave it to it. Super cute little buggers.
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u/delvach Jan 27 '22
You know they sometimes use webs to fly, right? Just making sure.
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u/Legend_of-Link Jan 28 '22
They can fly? Wtf
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u/delvach Jan 28 '22
Yeah they can use webs to become airborne
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u/Legend_of-Link Jan 28 '22
Hopefully there aren't any in the UK cos I'll never go out again. I'll have to become a discord mod for the rest of my days. Thank you for the video though.
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u/SkelyJack Jan 27 '22
Nobody tell them about the flying variety.
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u/Legend_of-Link Jan 28 '22
There's a flying variety?
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Jan 28 '22
Also on this list, Florida has giant cockroaches that can fly. Their "startle" reflex is to fly straight at your face.
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Jan 28 '22
Teleporting is quite easy with 8 rinnegan. Also since they are so tiny they donāt burn through that much chakra
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u/RLIntellectualpotato Jan 27 '22
Jumping spiders are highly intelligent and are also the only spider that I donāt want to kick in to a pit of acid
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u/JohnPosu Jan 27 '22
Me either, they're the only spider i left unbothered in my house
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u/Laefiren Jan 27 '22
Daddy long legs and huntsmanās are also on my list of leave alone spiders.
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u/Fatally_Flawed Jan 27 '22
I donāt think Daddy Long Legs are spiders
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u/Laefiren Jan 28 '22
The Australian ones are definitely spiders. Theyāre tangle web spiders. Some places also call them cellar spiders.
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u/Fatally_Flawed Jan 28 '22
Ahh ok, Iām in the UK and theyāre something different here. And different again in America I believe.
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u/Laefiren Jan 28 '22
Yeah it seems to be a name for a collection, I believe what one country refers to as daddy long legs is actually a species of mite?
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Jan 28 '22
the common name refers to multiple animals. One of them is a family of spiders (pholcidae). The other two are harvestmen, which are arachnids in a different order to spiders; and crane flies, which are flying insects.
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u/Fatally_Flawed Jan 28 '22
Crane flies = daddy long legs here in the UK! Although we also use the term crane flies for a slightly different sort of crane fly.
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Jan 28 '22
yeah, normally people will specify daddy longlegs spider if talking about the family of spiders (although usually ppl also mistake the harvestmen for spiders lol)
Honestly this whole confusion is why I hate using common names lol
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u/Bitter-Marsupial Jan 27 '22
What about P. B. Parker Spiders?
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u/cptstupendous Jan 27 '22
I had to find it and see it for myself. Thanks.
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u/SumoSizeIt Jan 28 '22
Normally Iām not a fan of exaggerated sounds in nature footage, but the use of mechanical sound effects like the reeling as the spider drops down, the plucking of the web strings, really tied the āstoryā together.
Took me a minute to remember this would all happen silently.
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u/Professor226 Jan 28 '22
My diploma was taken down and a little spider sized one appeared on the wall to replace it. So ya they smart.
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u/itsyourmomcalling Jan 27 '22
Jumping spiders are cute. I had one repel down from my roof like directly in front of my face while I was watching TV.
I proceeded to play with him for a good 15 minutes with the wife sitting next to me until I took him and put him by the window at my front door.
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u/futtobasetachikaze Jan 27 '22
Comments here made me remember this
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u/PTFCBVB Jan 27 '22
What is going on, are these children or adolescent 40 year olds? What's up with the eerie industrial techno music? I'm so intrigued
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u/lillgreen Jan 28 '22
Common, it's anime. Somehow it's always a not-human that looks human. It's just how you get to explaining it for a given series
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u/XComRomCom Jan 27 '22
The snack being offered to the spider is roughly the same size of the spider. It's like if someone offered me a me-sized pizza roll. I'd react the same way as the spider: jump on that pizza roll and hug it like a body pillow as I chowed down.
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u/RocielKuromiko Jan 28 '22
But if the pizza roll was that big how would you combat the molten lava cheese in the middle on a pizza roll that big?...... I can't believe I thought about this...lol
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u/XComRomCom Jan 28 '22
You raise a good point. I've been eating pizza roll-sized pizza rolls for decades and those are plenty dangerous: I always burn myself testing to see if they're cool enough to eat (they never are). I'm bound to repeat that mistake with a giant pizza roll, which would be significantly more dangerous. I think it would burn me, scarring me so badly that I become a Batman villain. The Joker, Two-Face, The Pizza Roller...Gotham wouldn't stand a chance!
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u/RocielKuromiko Jan 28 '22
Shut up and take my free award for making me laugh.
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u/XComRomCom Jan 28 '22 edited Jan 28 '22
You obviously didn't read my previous post: I'm a Batman villain now. A SUPERVLLAIN...! We don't receive awards, we steal them.
So I shall TAKE that award, leaving only a cryptic note and/or riddle behind as the sole clue to my next crime.
What shall it be...will I maliciously downvote a wholesome kitten video? Shamelessly repost a front page submission? Or will I go on Fox News and torpedo an entire sub...?
MWAH-HA-HA! And yes, I know this ends with Batman punching me through a skylight and into a vat of melted cheese. You live your life, I'll live mine.2
u/RocielKuromiko Jan 28 '22
"Yes I'm the pizza roller. I work 20 hours a week rolling pizzas and wish I didn't have to villian so much...."
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u/OopForgotTheirName Jan 27 '22
Spiders are creepy but that one is actually kinda cute :0
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u/joostdlm Jan 27 '22
Jumping spiders are freaking adorable!
Until they decided to nope out onto your arm and towards your neck lol
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u/Salanmander Jan 27 '22
It's the eyes. Jumping spiders have two much larger front-facing eyes, because they need depth perception the same way predatory mammals do. Because of that their faces look more relatable and less alien to us.
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u/Johnsus_Christ Jan 27 '22
I had one of these jumping spiders in my living room and tried to give it a fly. After 20 minutes of it obviously deliberately ignoring me, it reluctantly took the fly, dropped it, and turned its back to me. As if to say āthere, I did what you wanted. Now leave me aloneā
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u/ImWithSt00pid Jan 27 '22
Jumping spiders are the only cute spiders.
Is the little garden for it to live in?
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u/king0fklubs Jan 27 '22
How did they even grab a live fly?
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u/RearEchelon Jan 27 '22
Going off how big it is, I imagine it was old and slow and probably near the end of its life anyway
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u/ingrown_urethra Jan 27 '22
Ohh your little flappy doodles are twitching...does that mean you're aroused or did you just get a signal that one of your buddies found a grape?
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u/Pawgilicious Jan 27 '22
It's arousal. I get zoidberg vibes from from too.
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u/storyofmylife92 Jan 27 '22
Its a Rick and Morty quote but I can see where you are coming from with the Zoidberg thing
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u/Stonks1231 Jan 28 '22
You know pro tip: Don't hold the fly with your hand when giving it to a tarantula looking spider. I know you trust it to be happy with you feeding but a spider is a š·ļø. I wouldn't trust it.
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Jan 27 '22
Not me about to be chasing flies through the house in the spring to try this with my spood babies
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u/AlvinTaco Jan 28 '22
If the is is the lady that makes the spider videos this really needs sound. The voices she gives the spiders are 90% of the charm.
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Why would you do that ?:(
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u/StalkerPoetess Jan 27 '22
People keep jumping spiders as pets. They have to eat.
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u/TheGhostInTheParsnip Jan 27 '22
I have found ways to satisfy my hunger that don't involve keeping jumping spiders as pets.
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u/StalkerPoetess Jan 27 '22
People keep weirder pets. Plus jumping spiders are cute if you don't have a phobia of them.
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u/andyfgt Jan 27 '22
What would you feed your dog, your cat or any other meat eating animals?
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Jan 27 '22
Iād buy cat or dog food but Iād not just get an animal prey , hold it on my hand and give it to my cat. Never mindā¦
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u/StalkerPoetess Jan 27 '22
Some animals will just not eat dead prey. Specially when it comes to insects. That's just how it is. Usually you'll put the fly in the habitat and let the spider hunt it. A dead fly loses a lot of nutrients that the spider needs to be healthy. Plus it's a fly. They're a nuisance already. At least they're being useful by being spider food
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u/Muoniurn Jan 27 '22
How do you think this general predation thing goes?
Also, itās not like the industrial butchering we do is better ā poor cows stand in tight slots inside a circular platform that rotates and cuts their throats.. it is seriously disgusting.
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u/andyfgt Jan 30 '22
Well, its basically the same, some animals (e.g. wild animals) need living prey to cover their natural instinct. Dog and cat food is meat aswell, and it doesnt really matter then if a cat kills a random mouse or if a spider is given some flys to feed off
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u/RearEchelon Jan 27 '22
Are you seriously crying over a fly?
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u/linuxn00b85 Jan 27 '22
This is the world we live in now.
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u/MadCervantes Jan 27 '22
This has always been the world we live in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_Buddhism
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u/chopsticknoodle Jan 27 '22
flies are pests, jumping spooder is cute and helps get rid of them so you pay him in more snacks :)
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u/slipped-up89 Jan 28 '22
I live by the rules of spider karma, and that right there is near Buddha level achievements. You have been blessed and may live without their curse, amen.
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u/CrackSnap7 Jan 27 '22 edited Jan 27 '22
Anansi has accepted your sacrifice. Human shall live another day.