Via Instapundit: “There’s a good chance at least one spider is staring at you right now, sizing you up from a darkened corner of the room, eight eyes glistening in the shadows.””
Via Instapundit: “There’s a good chance at least one spider is staring at you right now, sizing you up from a darkened corner of the room, eight eyes glistening in the shadows.””
I prefer this kind of Sweet Dreams (Patsy Cline)
She died shortly before this came out, and I was devastated.
What crock of shit about spiders. Spiders are cool predators. If it wasn’t for spiders we would be up to our asses in insects. I never kill spiders; they’re a beneficial component of my house’s ecosystem.
Yes even when spiders are in the bath tub and can’t get out, I get a glass and envelope and catch the little bugger and let him loose outside.
Here’s how terrifying they truly are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGGX2k36YQ
They never survive Raid!!
Love spiders, in fact it’s kinda creepy but my toddler is obsessed with spiders, not kid normal kinda cool stuff I mean she wants books about them, she watched YouTube videos about them …..she asks mom to “spiders on puter ” mom goes and puts something about spiders on YouTube mostly kids getting freaked out about spiders ….my kid loves it, I show her a spider outside she goes berserk , “daddy catch it ?” I put it on my hand or arm or whatever and she just friken loves it she goes crazy …keep it? Daddy keep it? Lol , touch it ? Annabelle touch it? lol I tell her yeah be careful but of course it runs off me but she will follow it …lol . She found a black widow in our garage…..lol it was a male but still I had to tell her it was a bad spider…can’t get to friendly …..I killed that one. And yes it was a web could not be more that a couple weeks old attached to my bike (I’m in Arizona) and a pile…yes at least 20-30 little and big carcasses under its web. It’s web had 3 trapped in it crickets …..anyway that’s my spider story.
It’s so cool that your kid loves spiders and that you’ve encouraged it. Especially the part about a very few of them are ‘bad spiders’ but most of them are good spiders. I wish more kids were raised like that to appreciate the natural world instead of killing it.
I don’t mind the little ones. If they’re above a certain size though I smash them to bits. It’s how I roll. lol.
Anything that eats that many flies, Mosquitoes, and gnats, would have to be an offensive looking creature.
But if nature didn’t allow them to eat pests, we would have been extinct from mosquito bites thousands of years ago.
I see where Instapundit picked up on the Garland outrage, linking to a Reason piece from yesterday. Again, why the H*** isn’t this a bigger deal in conservative media? And the FBI isn’t answering questions like they’re the Stasi or something. Haul Comey up to the hill. Demand answers you spineless Repub squishes. Good grief – our side is absolutely pathetic.
Now THAT’s the kind of PERSPECTIVE needed by the Global Warmists … who seem to have a blind spot to orders of magnitude I.e. the VAST size of the oceans … the vast amount of water vapor in the atmosphere … the infinitesimal amount of Co2 in the atmosphere.
Imagine that spiders OUTEAT mankind in meat consumption. Inconvenient science ?
i don’t believe in spiders
hear hear.
I am unaware of even a *single* aggressively malevolent spider species. and Im not talking about those that jump on their prey in order to feed.
same goes for snakes.
call me an enviro-wuss but Ive been known to cup spiders in my hand and bring them to a warmer environment in the waning autumn days so they can live longer and do their very necessary and enviably efficient job of bingeing on the pathogenic insects.
I do the same with spiders, however I can see Paul’s reasoning for eliminating a black widow spider in a house with a child who loves spiders.
As for snakes, I found copperheads to be aggressively malevolent when defending their den area, but that’s to be expected.
I like spiders, I must say. They are even more cold blooded (figuratively as well as literally) killers than cats. Most of them don’t see well – the exception being the saltacids – jumping spiders – which can see accurately for 30 cm or so in my observation.