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Spider - Pudinawala Comics (thelemmy.club)
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[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago

Black widows get a really bad wrap. Everyone is very afraid they are going to die from a bite, but the last documented death from a black widow spider was in the 1980s. I live in an area that has a lot of black and brown widows. The black widows are almost never seen and are not really a problem unless the person bitten is very young, very old, or very sick. I see a lot of brown widows, but their bite is not considered as dangerous. We also get a lot of false black widows, which are also super cool!

Black widow webs are pretty cool, you can hear the tearing sound when they break because the webbing so strong. I love finding those gorgeous little ladies with their bright red butt spots!

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

Sounds very similar to our redback spiders then! I always thought they were beautiful… where I used to live my neighbour had a walk in bird house thing (is aviary the word?) where there was this absolute unit of a redback. Bigger than a golf ball, its web was a third of the entire bird house. Absolutely terrifying and stunning at the same time. I saw it actually eating small birds like finches occasionally which is just nuts. We used to catch bugs and throw them into the web and watch the spider go for it. Wouldn't want a bite from that lady though!

[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Oh that sounds awesome! I love giant spiders and watching them eat can be so much fun!

I had a green lynx spider in my backyard last summer. She was really good at keeping pests off of my cucumber plants. I had zero aphid issues when she was around. I got to watch her eat her mate and make 2 egg sacs but only one was viable. It was so fun to see her build and fill one of the sacs.

I also had a praying mantis on my luffa plant. I would find inchworms eating the leaves and move them closer to the mantis. It was a lot of fun watching the attack and eating, when it would take the first bite, the inchworm juice would pop out and get all over the mantis face. It was pretty cute. I took soooo many pictures and videos of my spider and insect friends.

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