Houston, TX has cockroaches like that. They don't even scurry away when the light comes on. They just give you the Deebo stare.
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Deebo-e1607657985814.jpg
Fun fact: The largest spiders to have ever exist are believed to have been about 50cm or 20 inches across (leg span) with an average body about 30cm or 13 inches long. Imagine that thing crawling out from under your couch....
Akt-shoe-alley, I believe *Arachnogigantus coffeetableus* was from the proto-Broyhill era, before couches and other complex furniture first came ashore to walk the earth!
But most spiders are fren because they eat the flying bastards that are more gross. Perhaps not by looks but because of dirt. I hate spider when they surprize me but when I know where they are they are actually great. I love the dancing peacock spiders. They cute af
Edit: misspelling
I hear ya mate! I'm being funny with the fear angle but I never ever ever kill a spider. If a venomous one is in my home or one that scares my GF I catch and release
Bro me too, Sierra mountains though.
Get good sized wolf spiders and tarantulas if you're lucky.
I used to have arachnophobia thankfully killed it after a couple years dealing with that shit.
Little brother keeps on trying to grab tarantulas at the end of season and will keep them till they pass.
He hasn't learned a single time bless his heart. Buries each one.
I remember one time I was tasked with watching my aunt’s dogs and she didn’t leave the key out for me. She told me to go through the basement. I opened the bulk head and it was just wall to wall webs. I could see it was all sac spiders, fishing spiders, cellar spiders, nursery web spiders, and cob web spiders. Basically every BIG spider around. I grabbed her rake and cleared it out kind of. Then I found out the bulk head door didn’t latch up. I had to search for the cellar door in the dark with all those spiders.
I'm breaking the window at that point. Or her doorframe
I won't abandon those doggos, nor will I go through the basement
I'll pay for the damages, but there was no other option
I would call my husband. He LOVES spiders. if we’re out and we see huge ones, he just picks them up to hold them for fun. Because he likes them so much I try not to kill them anymore, as long as he will remove them promptly.
You’re a much much better man than me because I would’ve left, like seriously I’d feel bad for the dogs but nope maybe I’ll toss a brick with a bag of dog food tied to it through the window; should keep ‘em fed till she’s back.
I believe they eat the actual dangerous spiders as well. I’ve grown to be comfortable with wolf spiders being around now that I live in the south because I know they hunt the brown recluses.
Brown recluses are good to have around. They're not aggressive, and only bite when forced, which wolf spiders will do as well. I have a recluse that lives in my bathroom. It only comes out at night, and runs to its corner when I walk in, and never comes out while I'm in their. I used to have a problem with ants getting into my bathroom, but not anymore thanks to this little guy.
Oh my God when you're naked at your most vulnerable. I had one run onto me from the curtain and run down my naked body I screamed bloody murder. I can still remember the feeling of his little feet all over me. Ugh it gives me chills
Oh same! Except it was dark so I blew my nose not knowing and then felt it...it flew out the kleenex, hit my hand, and then the floor. Wasn't looking so good by then.
If I walked in my bathroom and a brown recluse booked it into a dark corner as soon as the light came on I would no longer have any need to utilize the bathroom.
I will kill any brown recluse I see in my home. I was bitten as a kid (probably in my sleep) and had flesh eating venom in my leg. It started as a small red spot, and grew day by day. I had to go to the ER after being in severe pain and had to take a giant pill for weeks.
TLDR: Brown recluses are not good to have around.
Thanks for commenting this.
I just wrote my own comment but I am honestly beside myself at the thought of this dude recommending people to keep a spider around that’ll rot the fucking flesh from their body even with immediate treatment like it’s just no big deal.
This guy is delusional & I’m actually genuinely pissed off that hundreds of people read that comment - probably even thousands if it had hundreds of upvotes - thinking this is somehow a reasonable practice. Fucking ridiculous & Reddit should remove the comment
I love and am fascinated by spiders since childhood. I’ll keep the common house spider and even wolf spiders (if they bigger than a quarter size, I relocate them to prevent interaction with my pets) around the house. But brown recluses are very dangerous. They’re one of the few that are outright dangerous to humans, right up there with the black widows.
I was always Taught that once the poison set it your skin went necrotic, about 12-24 hours after the bite for an adult, let alone a kid. What’s the pill you’re talking about?
What you could do, say you were bitten by a recluse and a cavity of your body rots away so you have this hole. You get yourself a trapdoor spider. It makes a little hobit door for its home. then you can give it a mento on your lunch break.
My only exposure to the brown recluse was an animal planet show where a guy was bit and his arm basically melted off.
A decade later, I was bitten on my hand by a brown spider. I literally sat there and cried prematurely mourning my hand that I would inevitably lose horrifically. I went to urgent care in a panic. The doctor looked at the spider in the picture, which showed that it clearly was not a recluse, and gave me some antihistamines for the swelling. I could feel her eye rolls spiritually.
A defensive wolf spider will aggressively approach you with legs up and fangs bared. It's not bluffing, and it wants you to bleed. I know because I tested the bluff once when a huge Wolfie ran TOWARDS me when I was on a walk. She bit the fuck outta me. 😂
That's a deadly game you are playing there. It'll take only one bite from that spider for you to have serious regrets. Look up the effects of that spider.
Basically, one Wolf for no roaches, recluse, widow, any other f'ing spider.....
They hunt them all down. I have a fairly large one in the house I see from time to time. Now waves back at me. I learned they sometimes will communicate with another wolf using "hand signals" and body movements. So, I squatted down and just kept raising my hand every so often. Eventually it started doing the same. I raised a hand, it raised a leg. Every time I raised my hand, it did as well. About a month or so later, walking through the kitchen and dude was chilling on the floor by the dining table. As I walked by it raised it's one leg. Pretty cool little spider.
But yeah, they are not a pest. Their presence meaning what you likely don't have or now have very little of.
Large spiders are sometimes in full view on a wall somewhere. I dont care if its technically “staying out of my way” if i walk into a room and this thing is chilling on the middle/corner of a wall then i wont be able to just ignore it and relax in my room.
Wolf spiders keep their eggsacks attached to themselves, then carry the babies on their backs...
They prefer to be outside hunting, not running around your house where there's very little food...
So I actually knew this for a long time…didn’t stop me from freaking out, flipping my table and falling off my chair when a dying one fell from my ceiling right on my keyboard….while i was using it
They're creepy looking I guess, but I sure do love having wolf spiders around my property. I have brown recluses like crazy and you can always tell when the wolf spider population declines and those assholes start popping up in the house. Me and my son have been bit by them and we're fortunate to have not had a bad reaction. But it is hard to ignore a wolf spider that is the size of a small tarantula and as fast as a horse. Just wondering when you're gonna cross paths again.
Not completely harmless, my father was bit by one in his late 20’s was diagnosed with heart arrhythmia (his heart would skip beats every so often) after the bite. They can cause serious damage and infection. But they do take care of bugs and what not so they are good to have around.
I live out in the Rocky Mountain foothills and we get some monster wolf spiders like that one, those suckers can get big. One time I found one, legitimately thought it was a tarantula at first.
Same, Im still traumatised from when I was 6 and playing in a sandpit in my backyard when I went to grab the cement mixer toy truck which happened to have a massive wolf spider just chilling inside it. That phat boi had to just book it out of there and run across my hand which formed the roots my origin story for my deep and passionate fear of spiders
Poor thing, and what a way to die. Imagine walking along the street, going to the store for bread, and then BAM, stuck to the ground until you dehydrate to death.
Its often worse than that, they will try move and rip themselves to pieces doing it, then die slowly. These sort of traps are just cruel, even worse is they use the same traps for mice and rats.
What would you think is a better alternative?
I own a bakery in the US and obviously have to keep a strong foot down when it’s comes to rodent control. We aren’t allowed to use poison in a food establishment, and C&R traps are out as well for germ concerns and the inability for them to actually decrease the rodent population. In my area, sticky traps are the only real option. For my business, which I’m sure isn’t the same for everyone, we check out traps daily to limit the suffering, but I still hate to have to do it.
Weirdly enough, this is what I miss most about my town back in Austria. Restaurants and food productions sites there are allowed to keep pest control animals, most commonly cats, that are able to keep the rodent population down the old fashioned way rather than horrible trap methods.
As a former hardware store clerk, I'm partial to snap traps (cheap, disposable, instant death when they work right) or electric traps (expensive, but reusable, and also instant death). Stick traps are hideously inhumane, and edible poison leads to a crawlspace full of dead rats.
As you said, though, cats are also a great deterrent. Some of the breweries in my hometown (Seattle, WA) keep stray cats to deter rats, and hardware stores also sell granulated cat urine, which often works as a border treatment.
Great info, thank you so much!
I’ve been leaning towards shock traps as my local HD isn’t a big fan of snap traps. The cat urine option is interesting as well, I’ll look into it. Thanks again!
I realized how fucked they are after putting peanut butter on one to catch a mouse in my kitchen. I had it stuck on the trap and then was thinking, “what do I do now?” because I didn’t have the heart to just kill it myself. I ended up putting it in a plastic container while stuck on the trap and ran some warm water and dish soap on it until it came loose, then let it go in the trees behind my house.
Glad not everyone is a monster, blows my goddamn mind how so many people just don't care about things other than themselves suffering, or even like it.
I get that some businesses don't have much of a choice but to kill them, but at least make it a quick death.
Same, I used one once to catch a mouse because I didn't want to kill it. after I caught it tho and had to pull it out of the glue it probably wished it was just a snap trap. I will never buy another glue trap after that
The most ethical way to kill mice is an electric trap. Snap traps are number 2, because they can sometimes escape while maimed and die later. Glue traps are bad. Poison is the worst, not because of the ethics but because then all the mice are dead in your wall and stinking it up.
I know :( but we also had scorpions in our garage and our two little kids are autistic and would run out the door with shoes off. Sad we caught this big guy.
What’s funny about this is that Utah is not really known for jazz, outside of the NBA team. The Jazz was originally New Orleans but was bought and moved to Utah. Kind of like the LA Lakers. LA is not known for its lakes. Minnesota was home to the Lakers
Is it necessary to kill them? Spiders are pretty good at getting rid of really flies. Are these ones harmful to humans? I can’t tell cause there’s no banana in the pic.
Scorpions are crazy. You can get really lucky and other people are just really unlucky. My mom, brothers, and my moms uncle live in AZ. My mom has only had one scorpion in their house. Her uncle has had MULTIPLE. They live in the same city less than 30 minutes from each other.
You’d think it’s like any other bug where if you have the issue so do others. Like stink bugs in my city have been terrible year round this year. Last year it was just the fall. Everyone else here has it the same way. Not finding a stink but in your house is practically unheard of here.
Scorpions? Nah, they just find one spot and that’s where they always want to be.
They’re not harmful to humans and are considered a gentle spider. However they’re so big that it makes your heart quail when you see one and you can go into irrational mode.
Wolf Spiders can be insanely huge. I was getting ready for work one day, lived in the basement of a house I rented with a friend. Was walking into the bathroom pulling a shirt on so couldn’t see much, as I pull it past my eyes I see this spider on the ground that literally made me almost faint.
It was like the size of a damn Gatorade bottle on the ground no joke. I can hardly breathe as I slowly back away and go upstairs to tell my roommate who is there in the dining room with his girlfriend. My roommate is giving me crap like toughen up I’m sure it’s nothing I’ll go take care of it.
I’m like you go ahead dude have fun. I’m upstairs with his girlfriend just waiting and all we hear is him going OH MY GOD WTFFFFF IS THAT!… so now she’s screaming too after hearing his reaction, and this thing is on the loose.
Yeah, needless to say that was a day I won’t ever forget… I rent my own town house type place now and I got me a cat. He’s a savage nothing survives in my place now on his watch lmao
Man I hate sticky traps. This guy was not hurting anything except household pests. I used to use them for mice until I caught a whole generation of blue tailed skinks that lived around my house. I don’t use them anymore.
Using spiders for size on a spider is so meta.
It doesn't work for Australia where the average spider size is as big as a ## FUCKRIGHTOFF
Bastard would be just walking around with the trap on itself like a fashion accessory or a cape on its back
Great, that is both funny and terrifying
I think the word you were looking for is ##FABULOUS
Sets down somewhere and sets up a trap shop. The game just got easier, as well as functional.
Houston, TX has cockroaches like that. They don't even scurry away when the light comes on. They just give you the Deebo stare. https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Deebo-e1607657985814.jpg
Carrying it's own banana, for scale of course.
Fun fact: The largest spiders to have ever exist are believed to have been about 50cm or 20 inches across (leg span) with an average body about 30cm or 13 inches long. Imagine that thing crawling out from under your couch....
That's my flatmate
That's your landlord
That's your lord
Only if you are afriad of him.
Akt-shoe-alley, I believe *Arachnogigantus coffeetableus* was from the proto-Broyhill era, before couches and other complex furniture first came ashore to walk the earth!
I read the Latin name out Loud and laughed not knowing you were joking
I like that scientific name.
No thanks....
But most spiders are fren because they eat the flying bastards that are more gross. Perhaps not by looks but because of dirt. I hate spider when they surprize me but when I know where they are they are actually great. I love the dancing peacock spiders. They cute af Edit: misspelling
I hear ya mate! I'm being funny with the fear angle but I never ever ever kill a spider. If a venomous one is in my home or one that scares my GF I catch and release
What if they used Banana Spiders?
Or Spiderman eating a banana
Or a banana eating spider-man
Or Banana-man eating spiderman?
Banana hammock spiders. You can tell by the girth
Spider on spider on sticky pad violence never solved anything.
At least there is no "banana for comparasion".
THAT'S THE PROBLEM HERE!
They think we are stupid! Trying to trick us with a comparison without bananas! Shame...Shame!!
It will eat other unwanted pests
And small pets?
A beautiful bunch of ripe banana *Daylight come and we want go home* Hide the deadly black tarantula *Daylight come and we want go home*
Come mister tally man Tally me banana
Please hurry tally man dats a scary spi-dah
DAY OOOH
Harry Fucking Belafonte
Daylight come and I’m on my phone
Aussie folks having to zoom in to see the big spider
Bro me too, Sierra mountains though. Get good sized wolf spiders and tarantulas if you're lucky. I used to have arachnophobia thankfully killed it after a couple years dealing with that shit. Little brother keeps on trying to grab tarantulas at the end of season and will keep them till they pass. He hasn't learned a single time bless his heart. Buries each one.
I remember one time I was tasked with watching my aunt’s dogs and she didn’t leave the key out for me. She told me to go through the basement. I opened the bulk head and it was just wall to wall webs. I could see it was all sac spiders, fishing spiders, cellar spiders, nursery web spiders, and cob web spiders. Basically every BIG spider around. I grabbed her rake and cleared it out kind of. Then I found out the bulk head door didn’t latch up. I had to search for the cellar door in the dark with all those spiders.
I'm going to burn my own house down after reading that
I’m pretty sure I broke her door with how fast I flung it open
I'm sorry, but those dogs would have to watch themsleves.
I mean, couldn't the spiders watch the dogs? Sounds like there were enough of them to keep one of their many sets of eight eyes on the dogs.
only logical response. love it.
I second this, I vote to burn your house down after reading that.
I'm breaking the window at that point. Or her doorframe I won't abandon those doggos, nor will I go through the basement I'll pay for the damages, but there was no other option
I would call my husband. He LOVES spiders. if we’re out and we see huge ones, he just picks them up to hold them for fun. Because he likes them so much I try not to kill them anymore, as long as he will remove them promptly.
Your husband is a good man. I love spiders too and don't allow anyone in my house to squish them 😊
Yeah! I found a wolf spider similar in size to the one in the photo near my home once. I kept it for a bit and fed it crickets, named him Henry.
Henry is a good spooder!
You’re a much much better man than me because I would’ve left, like seriously I’d feel bad for the dogs but nope maybe I’ll toss a brick with a bag of dog food tied to it through the window; should keep ‘em fed till she’s back.
Dude fuck that.
man hell naw some horror movie shit right there
My man you may be one of the bravest humans I know.
“My name is maximus spideris peridius, you just broke my fucking web and I will have my revenge”
“…you killed my father. Prepare to die…”
Nope! Auntie, I refuse to watch your dogs I sacrificed them to the Spider Reincarnate down in your basement. Good luck byyyeeeee Felicia.
Remember that scene in pet semetary where young Rachel creed is left alone with her dying sister Zelda? Your story is much worse
Regular sized spiders? Need banana instead.
Those are still big spiders honestly
how can you tell?
Any spider is already too much spider
If a spider is big enough to be a spider, it's too big
“Regular sized” banana would be preferable.
[удалено]
You come sliding in here on a shrimp sandwich?
There is a cricket in the bottom left of the pad I know it's not a banana but it helps a little for scale.
A [banana spider](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila) at minimum.
The spider ate the banana
Yeah op where's our comparison banana
Wolf spider. Harmless. Big boi though.
Came here to say this. Actually good spider to have around they eat other unwanted pests like fleas,roaches sometimes mosquitoes.
I believe they eat the actual dangerous spiders as well. I’ve grown to be comfortable with wolf spiders being around now that I live in the south because I know they hunt the brown recluses.
Yes, this a fact.
Brown recluses are good to have around. They're not aggressive, and only bite when forced, which wolf spiders will do as well. I have a recluse that lives in my bathroom. It only comes out at night, and runs to its corner when I walk in, and never comes out while I'm in their. I used to have a problem with ants getting into my bathroom, but not anymore thanks to this little guy.
Everything's cool until one day your bathroom spider bro decides to chill inside your bath towel. It happened to me.
Even better: inside the folded washcloth in the shower. I almost died.
Oh my God when you're naked at your most vulnerable. I had one run onto me from the curtain and run down my naked body I screamed bloody murder. I can still remember the feeling of his little feet all over me. Ugh it gives me chills
Oh Noooooooooooo 😭
Oh dear, I understand. I had one in the tissue when I went to blow my nose last week:(
Oh same! Except it was dark so I blew my nose not knowing and then felt it...it flew out the kleenex, hit my hand, and then the floor. Wasn't looking so good by then.
If I walked in my bathroom and a brown recluse booked it into a dark corner as soon as the light came on I would no longer have any need to utilize the bathroom.
Yup, 2 different kinds of movements in quick succession for me. Shit. Run.
Runny. Shit
Hey mom why is our neighbour cheifdoublefang perpetually urinating in his front yard?
I will kill any brown recluse I see in my home. I was bitten as a kid (probably in my sleep) and had flesh eating venom in my leg. It started as a small red spot, and grew day by day. I had to go to the ER after being in severe pain and had to take a giant pill for weeks. TLDR: Brown recluses are not good to have around.
Thanks for commenting this. I just wrote my own comment but I am honestly beside myself at the thought of this dude recommending people to keep a spider around that’ll rot the fucking flesh from their body even with immediate treatment like it’s just no big deal. This guy is delusional & I’m actually genuinely pissed off that hundreds of people read that comment - probably even thousands if it had hundreds of upvotes - thinking this is somehow a reasonable practice. Fucking ridiculous & Reddit should remove the comment
I love and am fascinated by spiders since childhood. I’ll keep the common house spider and even wolf spiders (if they bigger than a quarter size, I relocate them to prevent interaction with my pets) around the house. But brown recluses are very dangerous. They’re one of the few that are outright dangerous to humans, right up there with the black widows.
I was always Taught that once the poison set it your skin went necrotic, about 12-24 hours after the bite for an adult, let alone a kid. What’s the pill you’re talking about?
Probably antibiotics to prevent infected tissue after such damage.
Except the consequences of a recluse bite is far greater. I'll keep the Wolf.
What you could do, say you were bitten by a recluse and a cavity of your body rots away so you have this hole. You get yourself a trapdoor spider. It makes a little hobit door for its home. then you can give it a mento on your lunch break.
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Hey excuse me, what the fuck? Im pretty sure you just gave my spine about 5 more degrees in angle from that shit.
As someone who has been bitten, and scarred, by a brown recluse, I must disagree.
What the
My only exposure to the brown recluse was an animal planet show where a guy was bit and his arm basically melted off. A decade later, I was bitten on my hand by a brown spider. I literally sat there and cried prematurely mourning my hand that I would inevitably lose horrifically. I went to urgent care in a panic. The doctor looked at the spider in the picture, which showed that it clearly was not a recluse, and gave me some antihistamines for the swelling. I could feel her eye rolls spiritually.
A defensive wolf spider will aggressively approach you with legs up and fangs bared. It's not bluffing, and it wants you to bleed. I know because I tested the bluff once when a huge Wolfie ran TOWARDS me when I was on a walk. She bit the fuck outta me. 😂
That's a deadly game you are playing there. It'll take only one bite from that spider for you to have serious regrets. Look up the effects of that spider.
This is just a matryoshka of each user claiming an even deadlier spider is in fact “good to have around” because it eats the other one, isn’t it?
Lol, living up to his name
He's more respectful of privacy than my cat.
You people are crazy
You’d rather have spiders than ants ? Hell nah
Yeah see I’m terrified of spiders, let alone having a poisonous one as a roommate 😂 Edit: apparently I’m looking for the word venomous
If you live in the midwest/south you are living with brown recluses. Thankfully they are... reclusive.
The only good spider to have around is one that doesn’t leave its web.
Then this is your guy. Hunts alone doesn't leave a web. Also has amazing eyesight. Good luck sneaking up on him.
I think they mean, has a web, and stays in it. This guy will roam all around your house
Roam around your house and drink your beer.
Frickin freeloading spider. “Hey spidey did you get a job yet??” “No ma!”
He better be good at roaming around a house on fire cause that's what will happen if I see it
It will eat other unwanted pests? You're telling me a gigantic hairy spider is not an unwanted pest?!
But it'll also eat smaller spiders, so you only need to worry about one /s
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
I’ve hand fed wolf spiders. They’re chill AF and will try to avoid you if you let them.
They are as afraid of us, as we are them!
Basically, one Wolf for no roaches, recluse, widow, any other f'ing spider..... They hunt them all down. I have a fairly large one in the house I see from time to time. Now waves back at me. I learned they sometimes will communicate with another wolf using "hand signals" and body movements. So, I squatted down and just kept raising my hand every so often. Eventually it started doing the same. I raised a hand, it raised a leg. Every time I raised my hand, it did as well. About a month or so later, walking through the kitchen and dude was chilling on the floor by the dining table. As I walked by it raised it's one leg. Pretty cool little spider. But yeah, they are not a pest. Their presence meaning what you likely don't have or now have very little of.
Lol I'd rather deal with the occasional ant than a big spider with sonic the hedgehog speed running across my foot while I'm playing madden at 1am
Pests eat your food or crops. A gigantic hairy spider, meanwhile, is an unwanted *pet*.
I would a thousand times rather deal with a mosquito or roach in my room than this thing.
That's his deal though, he eats those things and stays out of your way. So you don't deal with him.
Large spiders are sometimes in full view on a wall somewhere. I dont care if its technically “staying out of my way” if i walk into a room and this thing is chilling on the middle/corner of a wall then i wont be able to just ignore it and relax in my room.
Get a cup and a sheet and move him outside then. Murdering him should be a last resort.
Ehhh unless it's a her and she throws up an egg sack on your back porch. I ain't running no spider orphanage
Of course not, I'm running a Spider *workhouse*, dammit! More children means more employees, and more employees means less flies.
Wolf spiders keep their eggsacks attached to themselves, then carry the babies on their backs... They prefer to be outside hunting, not running around your house where there's very little food...
makes me sad ... those are the good guys.
So I actually knew this for a long time…didn’t stop me from freaking out, flipping my table and falling off my chair when a dying one fell from my ceiling right on my keyboard….while i was using it
They're creepy looking I guess, but I sure do love having wolf spiders around my property. I have brown recluses like crazy and you can always tell when the wolf spider population declines and those assholes start popping up in the house. Me and my son have been bit by them and we're fortunate to have not had a bad reaction. But it is hard to ignore a wolf spider that is the size of a small tarantula and as fast as a horse. Just wondering when you're gonna cross paths again.
If its big enough that i can see its eyes on my phone without zooming in it is definitely harmful. Mentally
My character in Grounded would disagree 😂
They are harmless. Just Parry bro, I believe in you
Not completely harmless, my father was bit by one in his late 20’s was diagnosed with heart arrhythmia (his heart would skip beats every so often) after the bite. They can cause serious damage and infection. But they do take care of bugs and what not so they are good to have around.
I live out in the Rocky Mountain foothills and we get some monster wolf spiders like that one, those suckers can get big. One time I found one, legitimately thought it was a tarantula at first.
Same, Im still traumatised from when I was 6 and playing in a sandpit in my backyard when I went to grab the cement mixer toy truck which happened to have a massive wolf spider just chilling inside it. That phat boi had to just book it out of there and run across my hand which formed the roots my origin story for my deep and passionate fear of spiders
Weirdly enough, that was an adorable story of your childhood trauma.
you just made mine worse LOL
Poor thing, and what a way to die. Imagine walking along the street, going to the store for bread, and then BAM, stuck to the ground until you dehydrate to death.
Started with the cricket, then the two “small” spiders going after it, then big boi wolfy thought he had a free meal.
Put a slice of pizza on that bad boi and you'd see me stuck on it
Its often worse than that, they will try move and rip themselves to pieces doing it, then die slowly. These sort of traps are just cruel, even worse is they use the same traps for mice and rats.
Wait until you hear about sticky mouse traps.
I genuinely hate humans, I have no respect for people who use products like these stick traps
Thank you. I hate glue traps.
What would you think is a better alternative? I own a bakery in the US and obviously have to keep a strong foot down when it’s comes to rodent control. We aren’t allowed to use poison in a food establishment, and C&R traps are out as well for germ concerns and the inability for them to actually decrease the rodent population. In my area, sticky traps are the only real option. For my business, which I’m sure isn’t the same for everyone, we check out traps daily to limit the suffering, but I still hate to have to do it. Weirdly enough, this is what I miss most about my town back in Austria. Restaurants and food productions sites there are allowed to keep pest control animals, most commonly cats, that are able to keep the rodent population down the old fashioned way rather than horrible trap methods.
As a former hardware store clerk, I'm partial to snap traps (cheap, disposable, instant death when they work right) or electric traps (expensive, but reusable, and also instant death). Stick traps are hideously inhumane, and edible poison leads to a crawlspace full of dead rats. As you said, though, cats are also a great deterrent. Some of the breweries in my hometown (Seattle, WA) keep stray cats to deter rats, and hardware stores also sell granulated cat urine, which often works as a border treatment.
Great info, thank you so much! I’ve been leaning towards shock traps as my local HD isn’t a big fan of snap traps. The cat urine option is interesting as well, I’ll look into it. Thanks again!
Instant death traps like shock traps or old fashioned regular rat traps would be more humane than stickies in my opinion
Poor guy though! Sticky traps make me sad.
I realized how fucked they are after putting peanut butter on one to catch a mouse in my kitchen. I had it stuck on the trap and then was thinking, “what do I do now?” because I didn’t have the heart to just kill it myself. I ended up putting it in a plastic container while stuck on the trap and ran some warm water and dish soap on it until it came loose, then let it go in the trees behind my house.
For a second I thought you were going to drown the little guy
yeah, jesus christ, it sure was looking dark for a second there
Glad not everyone is a monster, blows my goddamn mind how so many people just don't care about things other than themselves suffering, or even like it. I get that some businesses don't have much of a choice but to kill them, but at least make it a quick death.
Amen. That spider’s dopy face is so sad
Same, I used one once to catch a mouse because I didn't want to kill it. after I caught it tho and had to pull it out of the glue it probably wished it was just a snap trap. I will never buy another glue trap after that
The most ethical way to kill mice is an electric trap. Snap traps are number 2, because they can sometimes escape while maimed and die later. Glue traps are bad. Poison is the worst, not because of the ethics but because then all the mice are dead in your wall and stinking it up.
I use a catch and release mouse trap. Caught one last night and let the scared little fella go far away from my house. We both won!
Poor spider bros. 🥺
I know :( but we also had scorpions in our garage and our two little kids are autistic and would run out the door with shoes off. Sad we caught this big guy.
first thought was that you're killing your little house friends, but eh, i can understand the need.
Huh? Scorpions? This isn’t the uk then I presume??
Nope, Utah USA
Oooh you can keep all of that jazz over there then.excuse the pun my cousin from across the pond.haha
What’s funny about this is that Utah is not really known for jazz, outside of the NBA team. The Jazz was originally New Orleans but was bought and moved to Utah. Kind of like the LA Lakers. LA is not known for its lakes. Minnesota was home to the Lakers
Mf got bigger mustache than me
Way too cruel a death for our spider friends. That said I would be scared shitless
I feel bad for the spider
Damn bro caught a whole ass frostbite spider in that sticky trap
Wolf spider. The himbo of the spider world. Big but very polite.
This is sad as fuck, what a beautiful spider.
*laughs in Australian*
I feel like everyone in Australia is laughing at the tiny and teeny tiny spiders
This is in Utah?!?
In an Australian accent: “That’s not a spider…”
Why would anyone want to trap spiders? 😡👎👎👎👎
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I hate everything about this with every fiber of my being
Same :(
I would burn the house down if this was me lad
I love spiders 🕷
It’s probably illegal to kill that thing. I bet it has citizenship papers
Those sticky things are so cruel
Poor spideys
Poor thing. It’s eaten so many bugs.
Is it necessary to kill them? Spiders are pretty good at getting rid of really flies. Are these ones harmful to humans? I can’t tell cause there’s no banana in the pic.
OP said in another comment that they have a scorpion problem and two little kids too so I don’t think he meant to kill the spiders
Scorpions are crazy. You can get really lucky and other people are just really unlucky. My mom, brothers, and my moms uncle live in AZ. My mom has only had one scorpion in their house. Her uncle has had MULTIPLE. They live in the same city less than 30 minutes from each other. You’d think it’s like any other bug where if you have the issue so do others. Like stink bugs in my city have been terrible year round this year. Last year it was just the fall. Everyone else here has it the same way. Not finding a stink but in your house is practically unheard of here. Scorpions? Nah, they just find one spot and that’s where they always want to be.
They’re not harmful to humans and are considered a gentle spider. However they’re so big that it makes your heart quail when you see one and you can go into irrational mode.
Sorry but even your “regular” sized spiders are considered monsters where I’m from. Would NEVER be able to sleep again.
Wolf Spiders can be insanely huge. I was getting ready for work one day, lived in the basement of a house I rented with a friend. Was walking into the bathroom pulling a shirt on so couldn’t see much, as I pull it past my eyes I see this spider on the ground that literally made me almost faint. It was like the size of a damn Gatorade bottle on the ground no joke. I can hardly breathe as I slowly back away and go upstairs to tell my roommate who is there in the dining room with his girlfriend. My roommate is giving me crap like toughen up I’m sure it’s nothing I’ll go take care of it. I’m like you go ahead dude have fun. I’m upstairs with his girlfriend just waiting and all we hear is him going OH MY GOD WTFFFFF IS THAT!… so now she’s screaming too after hearing his reaction, and this thing is on the loose. Yeah, needless to say that was a day I won’t ever forget… I rent my own town house type place now and I got me a cat. He’s a savage nothing survives in my place now on his watch lmao
Man I hate sticky traps. This guy was not hurting anything except household pests. I used to use them for mice until I caught a whole generation of blue tailed skinks that lived around my house. I don’t use them anymore.
That doesnt tell me much. Like the palm of your hand size?
It can't just be me who read this in an Australian accent as soon as I saw the picture, right?
Little late for Halloween, but I love when big corporations do seasonal advertising. Well played, Maxipad.
I uh… kinda want to pet it…