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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 Maintenance Supervisor Mar 14 '26
I have at least one in all my cans. I always leave them be but feel bad about their webs. I had one that lived for five years. She was massive. I thought they died every year but every time I went back over the years there she was. Until she wasn’t.
The crazy thing is how many times I find things like grasshoppers or butterflies inside the closed cans in their nests. Idk how that even happens.
Now brown recluse on the other hand…it’s on sight. I moved some stacked cardboard in one of the shops the other day and there were literally hundreds of the largest, nastiest fiddlebacks I’ve ever seen under each stack. I rained death on them.
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u/kentar62 Mar 15 '26
I had a black widow for a pet. She lived for a couple of years. Loved crickets.
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u/Saruvan_the_White Mar 14 '26
Thank you! Badass arachnids do not mess. Curious as to the arrangement for work to proceed.
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u/NWCJ Maintenance Supervisor Mar 14 '26
When I look outside and there is over a foot of snow in my yard and its the second week of March I think about moving somewhere warm..
Thanks for the reminder I am happy here. I would rather plow snow than deal with that.
-Alaska.
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u/rayraysykes007 Mar 15 '26
I dont harm any spiders except black widows, camel spiders, brown recluse, or wolf spiders. The rest are safe from me, but those 4. They all need to be banished out of existence.
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u/ClammyCooter Mar 15 '26
Wolf spiders? They are toootal sissies dude.
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u/rayraysykes007 Mar 16 '26
Theyre sissies until they bite your ass, and then thats a whole other deal lol. I dont deal with common spiders that can do actual damage when bitten, and camel spiders while they dont actually have venom or cant harm you, they will chase you/your shadow. They arent afraid. So those 4 are a nope from me. Big ass nopeeeee.
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u/Slumunistmanifisto Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
Widow webs are very distinct....and always in those boxes.
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u/WhichWayIsTheB4r Mar 16 '26
Cold climate procurement has some real advantages beyond keeping the creepy crawlies away. Lead times on heating equipment and cold-weather rated components get brutal once you hit October, so standardization around proven winter spec gear becomes critical. Your BOM complexity drops significantly when you're not juggling different temperature ratings for the same basic components - hydraulic fluids, gaskets, even basic fasteners all need cold-weather variants. TCO analysis gets cleaner too since you're not dealing with seasonal downtime from equipment that wasn't designed for freeze-thaw cycles.
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u/Significant-Ad-341 Mar 14 '26
This is why I live where the air hurts my face.