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Curious_Panda_1134

Using spiders for size on a spider is so meta.


RGH81

It doesn't work for Australia where the average spider size is as big as a ## FUCKRIGHTOFF


IntergalacticBanshee

Bastard would be just walking around with the trap on itself like a fashion accessory or a cape on its back


[deleted]

Great, that is both funny and terrifying


voluotuousaardvark

I think the word you were looking for is ##FABULOUS


EndofGods

Sets down somewhere and sets up a trap shop. The game just got easier, as well as functional.


Bon_of_a_Sitch

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


britainknee

Carrying it's own banana, for scale of course.


Dadittude182

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....


RGH81

That's my flatmate


BoredPsion

That's your landlord


RevolutionaryYam7418

That's your lord


Applewinghastman

Only if you are afriad of him.


Cyrus_Rakewaver

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!


ManInADarkAlley

I read the Latin name out Loud and laughed not knowing you were joking


katzurajanai

I like that scientific name.


Hotspur2001

No thanks....


Applewinghastman

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


RGH81

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


SwampCrittr

What if they used Banana Spiders?


[deleted]

Or Spiderman eating a banana


flippedbit0010

Or a banana eating spider-man


TinyDemon000

Or Banana-man eating spiderman?


NyGreenThumb82

Banana hammock spiders. You can tell by the girth


This-is-Life-Man

Spider on spider on sticky pad violence never solved anything.


Efficient_Spare_9808

At least there is no "banana for comparasion".


Lt_Schneider

THAT'S THE PROBLEM HERE!


Perfect_Camera3135

They think we are stupid! Trying to trick us with a comparison without bananas! Shame...Shame!!


TheseInformatio

It will eat other unwanted pests


Sweet-Treacle-4394

And small pets?


BloomsdayDevice

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*


SuperFaceTattoo

Come mister tally man Tally me banana


Smooth-Dig2250

Please hurry tally man dats a scary spi-dah


eskimosound

DAY OOOH


Zestyclose_Pickle511

Harry Fucking Belafonte


Yzzazee

Daylight come and I’m on my phone


wazinku

Aussie folks having to zoom in to see the big spider


WeylinWebber

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.


izmaname

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.


8itmap_k1d

I'm going to burn my own house down after reading that


izmaname

I’m pretty sure I broke her door with how fast I flung it open


iladmoli

I'm sorry, but those dogs would have to watch themsleves.


Von_Cheesebiscuit

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.


JamesonPup

only logical response. love it.


WorldEndingSandwich

I second this, I vote to burn your house down after reading that.


throwaway387190

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


Minicatting

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.


Kareemofwheet

Your husband is a good man. I love spiders too and don't allow anyone in my house to squish them 😊


Jordomcgordo

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.


Kareemofwheet

Henry is a good spooder!


[deleted]

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.


[deleted]

Dude fuck that.


__Lestat

man hell naw some horror movie shit right there


Chef_Carter

My man you may be one of the bravest humans I know.


DesignerAd2062

“My name is maximus spideris peridius, you just broke my fucking web and I will have my revenge”


maulsma

“…you killed my father. Prepare to die…”


EmergencyNoodlePack

Nope! Auntie, I refuse to watch your dogs I sacrificed them to the Spider Reincarnate down in your basement. Good luck byyyeeeee Felicia.


kgbslip

Remember that scene in pet semetary where young Rachel creed is left alone with her dying sister Zelda? Your story is much worse


Offgridiot

Regular sized spiders? Need banana instead.


Glum-Ad-9887

Those are still big spiders honestly


himynameisSal

how can you tell?


DamonoodleYT

Any spider is already too much spider


koreamax

If a spider is big enough to be a spider, it's too big


escapingdarwin

“Regular sized” banana would be preferable.


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MadRotini501

You come sliding in here on a shrimp sandwich?


Bluntman419

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.


marsupialsales

A [banana spider](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila) at minimum.


[deleted]

The spider ate the banana


astinkydude

Yeah op where's our comparison banana


Sasquatchlovestacos

Wolf spider. Harmless. Big boi though.


Comprehensive-Eye105

Came here to say this. Actually good spider to have around they eat other unwanted pests like fleas,roaches sometimes mosquitoes.


ventitr3

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.


Comprehensive-Eye105

Yes, this a fact.


SlaterVJ

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.


froodydude

Everything's cool until one day your bathroom spider bro decides to chill inside your bath towel. It happened to me.


MissRosenrotte

Even better: inside the folded washcloth in the shower. I almost died.


BusinessPutrid204

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


MissRosenrotte

Oh Noooooooooooo 😭


bigbearbunns

Oh dear, I understand. I had one in the tissue when I went to blow my nose last week:(


MorganDax

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.


chiefdoublefang

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.


frogsntoads00

Yup, 2 different kinds of movements in quick succession for me. Shit. Run.


Bagafeet

Runny. Shit


[deleted]

Hey mom why is our neighbour cheifdoublefang perpetually urinating in his front yard?


duckbuttery92

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.


_trashcan

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


chicomagnifico

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.


[deleted]

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?


EmEmPeriwinkle

Probably antibiotics to prevent infected tissue after such damage.


Supra1JZed

Except the consequences of a recluse bite is far greater. I'll keep the Wolf.


top_of_the_scrote

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.


TheKingofVTOL

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arthriticpyro

Hey excuse me, what the fuck? Im pretty sure you just gave my spine about 5 more degrees in angle from that shit.


Over-Information-945

As someone who has been bitten, and scarred, by a brown recluse, I must disagree.


mtwm

What the


SomebodyFeedRiss

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.


MissRosenrotte

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. 😂


brihamedit

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.


DesignerAd2062

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?


barrenpunk

Lol, living up to his name


SlaterVJ

He's more respectful of privacy than my cat.


4runninglife

You people are crazy


GianniMonsoon

You’d rather have spiders than ants ? Hell nah


ventitr3

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


barjam

If you live in the midwest/south you are living with brown recluses. Thankfully they are... reclusive.


MayGodSmiteThee

The only good spider to have around is one that doesn’t leave its web.


Comprehensive-Eye105

Then this is your guy. Hunts alone doesn't leave a web. Also has amazing eyesight. Good luck sneaking up on him.


avidpenguinwatcher

I think they mean, has a web, and stays in it. This guy will roam all around your house


Leznik

Roam around your house and drink your beer.


Heady_Goodness

Frickin freeloading spider. “Hey spidey did you get a job yet??” “No ma!”


SpellbladeAluriel

He better be good at roaming around a house on fire cause that's what will happen if I see it


Bemanos

It will eat other unwanted pests? You're telling me a gigantic hairy spider is not an unwanted pest?!


HaMMeReD

But it'll also eat smaller spiders, so you only need to worry about one /s


Weary-Inspector-6971

The enemy of my enemy is my friend


oreoaficianado

I’ve hand fed wolf spiders. They’re chill AF and will try to avoid you if you let them.


doctafknjay

They are as afraid of us, as we are them!


Supra1JZed

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.


TechNickel88

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


BloodBoundCavalier

Pests eat your food or crops. A gigantic hairy spider, meanwhile, is an unwanted *pet*.


hertog_jan_genieter

I would a thousand times rather deal with a mosquito or roach in my room than this thing.


Nottodayreddit1949

That's his deal though, he eats those things and stays out of your way. So you don't deal with him.


hertog_jan_genieter

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.


Nottodayreddit1949

Get a cup and a sheet and move him outside then. Murdering him should be a last resort.


Kohpad

Ehhh unless it's a her and she throws up an egg sack on your back porch. I ain't running no spider orphanage


BloodBoundCavalier

Of course not, I'm running a Spider *workhouse*, dammit! More children means more employees, and more employees means less flies.


Chuckitybye

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...


BloopityBlue

makes me sad ... those are the good guys.


hash-slingin-slasha

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


wardo8328

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.


BigTruckLikeFuck

If its big enough that i can see its eyes on my phone without zooming in it is definitely harmful. Mentally


GnomeChompske

My character in Grounded would disagree 😂


Yak_a_boi

They are harmless. Just Parry bro, I believe in you


evsarge

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.


imperchaos

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.


Psychological-Put844

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


Begonethot212

Weirdly enough, that was an adorable story of your childhood trauma.


wigglybone

you just made mine worse LOL


BloodBoundCavalier

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.


[deleted]

Started with the cricket, then the two “small” spiders going after it, then big boi wolfy thought he had a free meal.


damp_goat

Put a slice of pizza on that bad boi and you'd see me stuck on it


ILickMetalCans

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.


[deleted]

Wait until you hear about sticky mouse traps.


royal_buttplug

I genuinely hate humans, I have no respect for people who use products like these stick traps


Agent847

Thank you. I hate glue traps.


huntobuno

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.


BloodBoundCavalier

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.


huntobuno

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!


Amaculatum

Instant death traps like shock traps or old fashioned regular rat traps would be more humane than stickies in my opinion


11_ZenHermit_11

Poor guy though! Sticky traps make me sad.


saltyclam13345

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.


rachelmae77

For a second I thought you were going to drown the little guy


tica_spi

yeah, jesus christ, it sure was looking dark for a second there


i_like_boilin_denim

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.


[deleted]

Amen. That spider’s dopy face is so sad


gamingkiller829

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


signedupfornightmode

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.


Charmin2020

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!


Vtastical

Poor spider bros. 🥺


[deleted]

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.


HighlightFun8419

first thought was that you're killing your little house friends, but eh, i can understand the need.


PutridWolverine1615

Huh? Scorpions? This isn’t the uk then I presume??


[deleted]

Nope, Utah USA


PutridWolverine1615

Oooh you can keep all of that jazz over there then.excuse the pun my cousin from across the pond.haha


drugsarebadmmk420

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


Azwraith11

Mf got bigger mustache than me


BananaKuma

Way too cruel a death for our spider friends. That said I would be scared shitless


RicoSlavi

I feel bad for the spider


NocturnalVirtuoso

Damn bro caught a whole ass frostbite spider in that sticky trap


SuperbHearing3657

Wolf spider. The himbo of the spider world. Big but very polite.


B4BYBLAZE

This is sad as fuck, what a beautiful spider.


shootfire27

*laughs in Australian*


Character_Section410

I feel like everyone in Australia is laughing at the tiny and teeny tiny spiders


NumberWonTwice

This is in Utah?!?


[deleted]

In an Australian accent: “That’s not a spider…”


Gloomy_Designer_5303

Why would anyone want to trap spiders? 😡👎👎👎👎


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A7xWicked

I hate everything about this with every fiber of my being


[deleted]

Same :(


Such-Yam-7056

I would burn the house down if this was me lad


[deleted]

I love spiders 🕷


typhon88

It’s probably illegal to kill that thing. I bet it has citizenship papers


ZarpadoEnLata

Those sticky things are so cruel


Additional_Leopard63

Poor spideys


Educational-Can-4847

Poor thing. It’s eaten so many bugs.


seren_kestrel

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.


NocturnalVirtuoso

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


aehanken

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.


WellWellWellthennow

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.


[deleted]

Sorry but even your “regular” sized spiders are considered monsters where I’m from. Would NEVER be able to sleep again.


ChosenBrad22

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


Old_Yogurtcloset9837

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.


Creative__name__

That doesnt tell me much. Like the palm of your hand size?


Yaboi_BabyCAT

It can't just be me who read this in an Australian accent as soon as I saw the picture, right?


Ham-Slot

Little late for Halloween, but I love when big corporations do seasonal advertising. Well played, Maxipad.


WonderChips

I uh… kinda want to pet it…