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A spider web unlike any seen before

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Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by PaulHoule »

bob1029 wrote: post #45
colordrops wrote: post #25

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Yeah same, we do not bother spiders in the house unless they jump into bed or on food or whatever, and then we just take them outside. With spiders and cats in the house we never see any flies or other insects.

I have a rule with the spiders where if they get too bold they get the vacuum. I don't mind them lurking in the corners but I don't want them crawling across my desk. I think most of them understand the arrangement by now. Only occasional enforcement is necessary.

I feel guilty when I take down the webs. Wool dusters work as well as the vac.

Lately I have been trying to get macro photos of spiders hanging on their threads and so far failing because they see the camera and drop down a foot before I can set up the shot.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by IAmBroom »

oersted wrote: post #54
ginko wrote: post #52

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Seems like a great place for spider-eating frogs to move into.

> The environment, too, is unusually protected. The cave is hard to reach and is filled with foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide gas, in concentrations too great for most animals to live there.

I don't know why she swallowed a\ f\l\y\ rotten eggs.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by atlintots »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #81
_qua wrote: post #46

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I've never really understood the "spiders protect you from pests" argument. Yeah, sure they eat flies. But I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me and get stuck to some fly paper than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow. Maybe I have arachnophobia, but they're freaky little creatures that I don't want in my living space.

> I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me Ever wonder where those flies have been? Maybe on some nice smelly garbage, and then on your food or your dishes. Flies carry diseases, man. > and get stuck to some fly paper Glue traps are cruel.

Aren't spider webs kind of like glue traps

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by briandw »

The big problem with farming spiders for silk is that you can’t have a dense colony of them. This could a solution to that. Breeding these to make super strong silk to harvest would be really cool. Although you have to have a way of separating the strands to make thread.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by antisthenes »

le-mark wrote: post #71

I once had an apartment in an old building. The building had high ceilings and equally high wood frame windows. The windows were drafty and had visible gaps to the outside. As winter approached, and nights grew colder I set out to cover the windows with plastic film (common here for this purpose). While preparing one window in the bedroom I discovered a silken patch like a miniature of the one depicted in this articl…

I'd read a short story or a novella written by you. Hope it was not LLMd.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

atlintots wrote: post #94
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #81

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> I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me Ever wonder where those flies have been? Maybe on some nice smelly garbage, and then on your food or your dishes. Flies carry diseases, man. > and get stuck to some fly paper Glue traps are cruel.

Aren't spider webs kind of like glue traps

No.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by ceejayoz »

atlintots wrote: post #94
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #81

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> I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me Ever wonder where those flies have been? Maybe on some nice smelly garbage, and then on your food or your dishes. Flies carry diseases, man. > and get stuck to some fly paper Glue traps are cruel.

Aren't spider webs kind of like glue traps

The spider quickly kills the prey. Glue traps don’t.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by latentsea »

functionmouse wrote: post #76
latentsea wrote: post #60

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Who gave them billions of dollars?

Trillions of dollars worth of propaganda, lobbying & outright bribery, regulatory capture, psychological social conditioning etc say Americans don't stand a chance to change the status quo. These things are set in motion empirically, you have got to understand.

Trillions of dollars regular folks purchases produces billionaires.
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