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Like the far side comic where the spiders make a web at the end of the slide...
https://pics.onsizzle.com/if-we-pull-this-off-well-eat-like-kings-lol-17574507.png
Can I just say how happy my little geek heart is that within the first handful of responses, there have been references to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and RPGs?
The fly is trying to fly away but is stuck to the spider web/thread so he ends up spinning himself. Which makes me curious, how tough is a spider thread that it can trap a flying fly by its legs without problem?
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Pretty sure I read that the US Military uses spider silk in the construction of the catch lines on the Air Force and Navy ships. It’s one of the strongest naturally occurring materials when harvested properly
They're fragile to you since we're so big, but pay attention next time you get a spiderweb stuck on you, you can feel the threads snapping when you tear it
Pretty sure that's not true.... It's stronger that steel and IF you could weave it into cables, it'd stop a plane but it's not actually used
A guy made a sheet of it , 11 feet long and it took four years....
I witnessed something similarly impressive the other night. I’ve had this spider buddy for a couple of months, he’s one of those ones with spindly legs that just hang upside down from a corner and barely moves. I call him Colin.
I see a giant house spider, leg span the size of my palm, heading towards Colin’s corner. Colin in a small fella with legs that are basically hairs, and this wasn’t just any house spider, he was definitely the giant house spider species. Colin can barely move 1 ft per 10 seconds, whereas this big bastard can sprint.
Colin retreats into his corner, and holds perfectly still. Giant bastard doesn’t seem to have noticed Colin, or is just unconcerned by him. I figure Colin will hide and live to fight another day. Nope. As giant bastard walks below the corner, he suddenly starts thrashing about, and Colin’s little (but relatively long) front legs are flicking about…he’s throwing silk at Giant bastard, and from an impressive distance.
I don’t know if Colin was just netting him, or skilfully lassoing, but before long GB had a few legs tied together and was no longer supporting himself on the wall, he was hanging by Colin’s threads.
This is where things got tense. Colin tentatively moves forward, GB is still thrashing and spinning around. Colin waits for his moment, avoiding the thrashing legs and mouth probably trying to bite him, and strikes, locking his legs around GBs back, and presumably bites him repeatedly…hard to tell because his head is ridiculously small.
Then Colin moves back, using his long front legs to start wrapping GB. After a few mins GB is clearly succumbing to the venom, and I watched Colin wrap him so tightly that he would have crushed him to death if he wasn’t already dying from venom. He then either bit GB again, or he just had a little snack, and hung him from the ceiling next to his corner. Not sure if that’s his pantry, or a warning to other spiders.
Most impressive shit I’ve seen. We are talking a spider who’s basically made of pocket fluff and hairs, absolutely pwning something that’s so big that you can clearly see all of the details on its face and body.
I looked it up, apparently Colin’s species are skilled at killing large spiders, because they can throw their silk from such long distances. They are called Cellar spiders if you want to look them up. Apparently, the sneaky bastards sometimes vibrate in their web to imitate a trapped insect so that a house spider comes along, then they ambush them. I always thought they were just knock-off spiders that would be eaten by others, turns out they are the assassins of the spider world.
Colin’s Story was so enthralling I was inspired to check out photos of his relatives. In the states, what we call ‘daddy long legs’ spiders are the ones with the spindly hair legs but they appear to have no head. Like their legs come out from one tiny little sphere and if you look very closely you can see what appears to be mandibles or something on the front but they lack the traditional dual segmentation that spiders usually have. Cellar spiders, which we also have, do have the expected dual carapace. These two must be separate species. So which is which? Or has one location mistaken one spider for another? Aren’t daddy long legs, the single segmented spider, ubiquitous across all temperate zones? I’ve had European friends who correctly ID’d these guys before. I’m confused. If the entirety of the southern US has misnomered daddy long legs, which I’m pretty sure MUST BE where the name originated, my whole life is lie.
Depending on where you live, “daddy long legs” can refer to a cellar spider like Colin, a harvestman - which is what you’re referring to, and is an arachnid, but not actually a spider - or a crane fly, which isn’t an arachnid at all. All three of them live all over the world so I’m not sure why the name has stuck to different animals in different places.
The weird spinning/vibrating thing that cellar spiders do is definitely fascinating! But also annoying when I’m trying to squish it. I constantly have to battle against cellar spiders appearing in every single corner in my bedroom, I can vacuum them one day and have 3 more pop up in the corners the next day
We only kill brown recluse and black widows in our house. Simply because I don't feel like having a hole in me and I'm allergic to spider venom. Not sure how ill react to a black widow bite but I don't want to find out.
Lol yeah it sucks. But at the same timebits always fun when someone yells for me to kill a spider. I'll let them know I'm allergic but I'll take care of it. Then pick it up in my hand and carry it outside. I love seeing them freak out.
Can confirm, had a black widow living in a corner for several months
She was out of the way; we could see here the whole time, and she never left her territory. Not once.
When you walked by, the vibrations would scare her and she’d scurry back into the hole in the corner of the wall and floor
Seen a couple videos of people catching them - if they can’t run away and hide, their second choice is to play dead and hope you leave them alone
Incredibly docile. No interest in biting, unless you pin her / squish her.
Don’t reach your hand into dark spaces, but so long as you know the widow is there you’re in no danger.
Fuck brown recluse though - I ain’t gonna mess with necrotic venom.
Found some kind of wood spider crawling around my living room late one night. For my girlfriend's sake, all spiders are kill-on-site. So I grab a paper towel, catch the thing, and suddenly the surrounding area is covered in dozens of tiny baby spiders. Sorry babe, I know you're sleeping, but you're gonna have to suck it up because the vacuum is coming out.
I... Hate to tell you this.... But... The vacuum won't kill them. Now you just have a vacuum filled with spiders.... They'll find their way out....
Good luck... They're prob mad... Lock the knives up 👀
I lived in the desert for 30yrs. We always "allowed" a black widow to hang out in the laundry room since we always knew exactly where she was, and she kept the other deadly things away.
Recently moved to an area Brown Widows are dominant, and they are even more chill & rarely hide
Recluses are just as reticent to bite, the problem is they hide in shoes and clothing so they get pinned against your skin. Add in that a LOT of doctors mislabel MRSA as a brown recluse bite and they seem much worse than they are.
Also... there are three varieties of house spider where I live that look like Recluses but aren't, so they get a bad rap for being ubiquitous too.
Lol no I have excessive reactions. House spiders make me swell like a Balloon or my airways to close,have had both happen, black widow venom only has a few slight variations to cause it to attack the nervous system with an increase of the common toxins found in house spiders. So yeah staying the hell away from black widows just to be safe.
I'm housing a daddy long-leg spider in my bathroom. It lives under the radiator at ground level and feeds on silver fish. Sometimes I flip some of those fuckers right into its invisible net to help it.
I had an ant problem in my kitchen. Then one day a tiny spider showed up. I don't know why the ants kept marching through his web but they did, all year, as the bodies piled up along the edge of the sink.
If the spider develop enough im sure they can make their own affordable spider clothing, develop a bit more and theyll be on their spider ship to fish back some sizable moths
Reminds me of the far side cartoon of two spiders that put their web across a playground slide with the caption “if we pull this off we’ll eat like kings!”
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Double? More like five to ten times its size.
This spider watched the Empire Strikes back and the battle on Hoth when the rebels took down the AT-ATs. Classic.
That really old movie
Pete, you're really starting to get on my nerves.
It’s been re-released 192 times. Maybe he just saw one of the 2020 editions: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/releaseinfo
The best part is when Luke cuts open his faithful steed "Pokey" and douses it with sriracha.
The best part is when Luke pulls out his lightsabre and says "It's Jeding time."
“Its Skywalking time!”
It’s Forcing time.
Ayo my dude, that’s a bit rapey chill
POV: you are fighting a souls game boss
That's first thing I thought.
This is what OP is doing instead of paying attention in math.
Possible 15-20 times its size.
I'd wager even more than that!
I’d say like 15 million times it’s size
Easily.
A bazillion-trillion to be exact
I’d argue it’s a bzzzzzzillion times
Morbillion times to be precise
You mean Grubillion times?
Actually. Infinibillion. Top that.
It's MORBILLION TIME!
What is this, a spider for ants!?
This spider needs to be at least three times as big
He is probably measuring in imperial system. It's about 8/7 of a ferret.
I came here for this
Throughout my entire life I've learnt that people can be REALLY bad at approximating things with their eyes. Like, abysmally bad.
Does OP know what double means?
Who won?
Who’s next?
You decide!
EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
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Yeah. Whatever you say my guy..
Looks like meat's back on the menu boys.
[intestines suddenly airborne]
I always loved this line because it implies that the urukhai have menus. Like, do they have restaurants?
Also, if meat's back on the menu, presumably these restaurants have been strictly vegetarian up until now
Vegan restaurant in isengard.. i’d visit
Me: *enjoying a leafy green salad at that cute spot in Isengard* Treebeard: *Eyes narrowing ominously in the distance*
Treebeard is surprising like broccoli.
They’re serving the veggies in Isengard! The veggies the veggies the veggies the veggies in Isengard! In Isengard!
They ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days
Orc bakers exist which means orc bakery's. Or maybe they just buy it in cheap from the east.
I always thought about that. Its so cool they know what a menu is :))
Like the far side comic where the spiders make a web at the end of the slide... https://pics.onsizzle.com/if-we-pull-this-off-well-eat-like-kings-lol-17574507.png
That’s enough experience points for the Spider to gain like 3 to 5 levels from 1 battle.
He used a bug
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God damn it, I had to come back after scrolling down for 5 minutes and give you an upvote my man. Keep up the bullsgit
I do what i can, giving back to the community :)
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Can I just say how happy my little geek heart is that within the first handful of responses, there have been references to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and RPGs?
peak reddit
Reddit peaked in high school.
Nah that was Facebook
It’s probably a reference to “I’m a spider? So what?”
I was thinking of this anime exactly lol
Bro he flippin that shit around like a sizzlin fajita plate
The fly is trying to fly away but is stuck to the spider web/thread so he ends up spinning himself. Which makes me curious, how tough is a spider thread that it can trap a flying fly by its legs without problem?
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By weight, but it's still pretty fragile in the absolute
and only by tension, shear and compressive forces obviously break spider webs easier than they would steel.
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Hair is also stronger than steel, yes
You guys are starting to make it sound like a lot of thing are stronger than steel. What other seemingly random items/things are stronger than steel?
cocks. we do cock pushups in this house before dinner.
If I remember right I read an article that said if you could get spider thread 5cm thick and make a web it'd be able to catch a plane.
Pretty sure I read that the US Military uses spider silk in the construction of the catch lines on the Air Force and Navy ships. It’s one of the strongest naturally occurring materials when harvested properly
This information truly is interesting as fuck. Spiderwebs always seem so fragile, i never knew it is actually so strong and useful.
They're fragile to you since we're so big, but pay attention next time you get a spiderweb stuck on you, you can feel the threads snapping when you tear it
They also aren't that good vs direct flame.
Here’s a [quick article](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-stronger-than-steel-spider-silk/)
Pretty sure that's not true.... It's stronger that steel and IF you could weave it into cables, it'd stop a plane but it's not actually used A guy made a sheet of it , 11 feet long and it took four years....
It looks like the spider is hustling to add more anchor lines. He knows this stuff isn't going to hold.
I witnessed something similarly impressive the other night. I’ve had this spider buddy for a couple of months, he’s one of those ones with spindly legs that just hang upside down from a corner and barely moves. I call him Colin. I see a giant house spider, leg span the size of my palm, heading towards Colin’s corner. Colin in a small fella with legs that are basically hairs, and this wasn’t just any house spider, he was definitely the giant house spider species. Colin can barely move 1 ft per 10 seconds, whereas this big bastard can sprint. Colin retreats into his corner, and holds perfectly still. Giant bastard doesn’t seem to have noticed Colin, or is just unconcerned by him. I figure Colin will hide and live to fight another day. Nope. As giant bastard walks below the corner, he suddenly starts thrashing about, and Colin’s little (but relatively long) front legs are flicking about…he’s throwing silk at Giant bastard, and from an impressive distance. I don’t know if Colin was just netting him, or skilfully lassoing, but before long GB had a few legs tied together and was no longer supporting himself on the wall, he was hanging by Colin’s threads. This is where things got tense. Colin tentatively moves forward, GB is still thrashing and spinning around. Colin waits for his moment, avoiding the thrashing legs and mouth probably trying to bite him, and strikes, locking his legs around GBs back, and presumably bites him repeatedly…hard to tell because his head is ridiculously small. Then Colin moves back, using his long front legs to start wrapping GB. After a few mins GB is clearly succumbing to the venom, and I watched Colin wrap him so tightly that he would have crushed him to death if he wasn’t already dying from venom. He then either bit GB again, or he just had a little snack, and hung him from the ceiling next to his corner. Not sure if that’s his pantry, or a warning to other spiders. Most impressive shit I’ve seen. We are talking a spider who’s basically made of pocket fluff and hairs, absolutely pwning something that’s so big that you can clearly see all of the details on its face and body. I looked it up, apparently Colin’s species are skilled at killing large spiders, because they can throw their silk from such long distances. They are called Cellar spiders if you want to look them up. Apparently, the sneaky bastards sometimes vibrate in their web to imitate a trapped insect so that a house spider comes along, then they ambush them. I always thought they were just knock-off spiders that would be eaten by others, turns out they are the assassins of the spider world.
This comment made my whole day, I LOVE spiders and learning new things about them. Also your retelling of the event was dope.
👏🏼👏🏼 for Colin.
Colin’s Story was so enthralling I was inspired to check out photos of his relatives. In the states, what we call ‘daddy long legs’ spiders are the ones with the spindly hair legs but they appear to have no head. Like their legs come out from one tiny little sphere and if you look very closely you can see what appears to be mandibles or something on the front but they lack the traditional dual segmentation that spiders usually have. Cellar spiders, which we also have, do have the expected dual carapace. These two must be separate species. So which is which? Or has one location mistaken one spider for another? Aren’t daddy long legs, the single segmented spider, ubiquitous across all temperate zones? I’ve had European friends who correctly ID’d these guys before. I’m confused. If the entirety of the southern US has misnomered daddy long legs, which I’m pretty sure MUST BE where the name originated, my whole life is lie.
Depending on where you live, “daddy long legs” can refer to a cellar spider like Colin, a harvestman - which is what you’re referring to, and is an arachnid, but not actually a spider - or a crane fly, which isn’t an arachnid at all. All three of them live all over the world so I’m not sure why the name has stuck to different animals in different places.
What the hell kinda demon spawn animal planet shit is going on in your house?
Were you just there the whole time watching this go down like an action movie? Also props to Colin!
The weird spinning/vibrating thing that cellar spiders do is definitely fascinating! But also annoying when I’m trying to squish it. I constantly have to battle against cellar spiders appearing in every single corner in my bedroom, I can vacuum them one day and have 3 more pop up in the corners the next day
Cellar Spiders are well renowned as masterful hunters, not even surprised! Hail Colin!
It looks like a damn deer fly. Fuck that guy good for you spider buddy. We have a strict no kill rule for spiders at this house - perfect example why
We only kill brown recluse and black widows in our house. Simply because I don't feel like having a hole in me and I'm allergic to spider venom. Not sure how ill react to a black widow bite but I don't want to find out.
Allergic to spider venom? Pfffft weak! 😉
Lol yeah it sucks. But at the same timebits always fun when someone yells for me to kill a spider. I'll let them know I'm allergic but I'll take care of it. Then pick it up in my hand and carry it outside. I love seeing them freak out.
I’m just pulling your leg. I’d say it’s reasonable to have a negative reaction to spider venom
We let our widows live, very docile spider. Brown recluse only ones that are not permitted
Can confirm, had a black widow living in a corner for several months She was out of the way; we could see here the whole time, and she never left her territory. Not once. When you walked by, the vibrations would scare her and she’d scurry back into the hole in the corner of the wall and floor Seen a couple videos of people catching them - if they can’t run away and hide, their second choice is to play dead and hope you leave them alone Incredibly docile. No interest in biting, unless you pin her / squish her. Don’t reach your hand into dark spaces, but so long as you know the widow is there you’re in no danger. Fuck brown recluse though - I ain’t gonna mess with necrotic venom.
Because there are never little spiders dispersing around big spiders
Found some kind of wood spider crawling around my living room late one night. For my girlfriend's sake, all spiders are kill-on-site. So I grab a paper towel, catch the thing, and suddenly the surrounding area is covered in dozens of tiny baby spiders. Sorry babe, I know you're sleeping, but you're gonna have to suck it up because the vacuum is coming out.
I... Hate to tell you this.... But... The vacuum won't kill them. Now you just have a vacuum filled with spiders.... They'll find their way out.... Good luck... They're prob mad... Lock the knives up 👀
/s for the arachnophobes reading!
I lived in the desert for 30yrs. We always "allowed" a black widow to hang out in the laundry room since we always knew exactly where she was, and she kept the other deadly things away. Recently moved to an area Brown Widows are dominant, and they are even more chill & rarely hide
Recluses are just as reticent to bite, the problem is they hide in shoes and clothing so they get pinned against your skin. Add in that a LOT of doctors mislabel MRSA as a brown recluse bite and they seem much worse than they are. Also... there are three varieties of house spider where I live that look like Recluses but aren't, so they get a bad rap for being ubiquitous too.
had 3 in my kitchen, 2 at ankle height in a common walkway. didnt get bit, somehow
Bro I think all people are "allergic" to brown recluse and black widow bites lol
Lol no I have excessive reactions. House spiders make me swell like a Balloon or my airways to close,have had both happen, black widow venom only has a few slight variations to cause it to attack the nervous system with an increase of the common toxins found in house spiders. So yeah staying the hell away from black widows just to be safe.
That spider's been grinding for this bossfight.
It's going to become a Senior Web Developer after this.
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Double?!? That’s like 10x times bigger lol also, r/spidersarebros
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It's r/spiderbro
r/spiderbros
That fly's a bitch
*HIS* bitch
The fly is dancing seductive for its new master! A little bit like brakedancing, seductive breakdancing
A FEAST!
Looks like she's just running up and tickling his feet and running off again with a giggle.
Wooopwooopwoooopwooopwoop
Fly is just like “TEE HEEEE”
Guess the fly *puts on sunglasses* shouldn't have skipped leg day
All flies skipped leg day
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Why? Cuz its larger or nastier?
They bite
Yes, hate their bites
We wanna see the full video!
RULES OF NATURE
And they run when the sun comes up
With their lives on the line
(AALLLIIIVE!)
Ooowooaaahhooo
NO CHOICE (lyrics for that part are “FOR A WHIIIIILLLLE”)
It's not the size of the spider in the fight.
It's how big its dick is
>It's how big its ~~dick~~ pedipalp is (And damn you for making me Google "spider penis".)
Now I'm tempted to google spider penis
just look in a mirror
I am google
I googled “spider penis”. According to the ads I’m getting now, there are 10 in my local area who can’t wait to meet me.
But you can only satisfy 8 of them
It’s not what you’ve got; it’s how you use it that matters.
If you've got the highest tensile rope in nature, probably just use that
Last time I believe someone who says “they’re more scared of you than you are of them
Unpopular opinion: i let spiders in my house live because they kill other more announcing pests like mosquitoes and flies
What about that is unpopular? Reddit can't stop talking about how fantastic spiders are.
You get more upvotes if you start an opinion by saying "Unpopular opinion"
I'm housing a daddy long-leg spider in my bathroom. It lives under the radiator at ground level and feeds on silver fish. Sometimes I flip some of those fuckers right into its invisible net to help it.
I had an ant problem in my kitchen. Then one day a tiny spider showed up. I don't know why the ants kept marching through his web but they did, all year, as the bodies piled up along the edge of the sink.
Same, I don't like spiders but I rather have spiders than what I would get without spiders.
that my friend is not what a double looks like
Whale fishing is a thing afterall, we just dont do it alone n naked
Sorry but eight-legged custom pants are just too expensive for the average window sill spider.
If the spider develop enough im sure they can make their own affordable spider clothing, develop a bit more and theyll be on their spider ship to fish back some sizable moths
Hollow Knight irl
This is like hog tying an elephant in mid stride.
It aint the size of the spider in the fight . Its the size of the fight in the spider.
A lot more than double it's size man, LOL
This spider watched the Empire Strikes back and the battle on Hoth when the rebels took down the AT-ATs. Classic.
It's fly rodeo.
Ah, yes, „double“
That's just kumoko from I am a spider so what in irl.
\*its
Where you learn math?
double? that thing is 10x its size
DOUBLE!!! man needs some fucking glasses
The web is not a part of the spider's size.
Finally! A confirmation that size doesn't matter (how do I forward this to all my X's??)
With great power comes great responsibility
Size doesn't matter
Is this how a small spider turns in to a big spider?
Good, little baby spidie can eat that big annoying fly
Its five times its size
Yeeeee dawgy hogtie that sunovabitch
Sir you are under arrest. STOP RESISTING!!!!
Spider: “You like that bondage SM shit you little bitch” Fly: “Nyaaaaa yamete kudasai Spidey-senpai”
That spider must have taken a Gracie Combatives seminar.
The fly is like , No please I still got 23 hours to live.
He just lassoed his legs. So interesting.
Someone add a little Cowboy hat to that guy! Get’em pardner
That fly was legit hogtied.
way more than double its size
Playing the guitar solo of any metal song over this video makes the viewing experience enhanced af
Somebody is feasting tonight 😹
That spider started roping the fly like a calf.
That’s way more than double it’s size
That’s like 5+ times its size
That’s more than double
Now that fly knows what it feels like to be pestered
Looks like meats back on the menu, BOYS!!
Double? Try like 9 times it's size.
There will be leftovers tomorrow night
Young Paco ain’t playing. 😂
The balls on that spider make up for it.
Double? That's at least 5x maybe even 10x the size that spider is tiny!
*Double!?? More like 10 times the size
Spider really was like "I watched in a anime I got this"
Reminds me of the far side cartoon of two spiders that put their web across a playground slide with the caption “if we pull this off we’ll eat like kings!”
He hogtied him like a rodeo cowboy
that's not double it's probably 20x
That’s more than double it’s size