- tobogganablaze ( @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ) English32•17 days ago
brown recluse
You’re now banned from !spiders@lemmy.world
- Miles O'Brien ( @SARGE@startrek.website ) English6•17 days ago
I would like to know the inside joke, but I also don’t want to look at a bunch of pictures of spiders…
I’m not arachnophobic, but I’m also not a spider voyeur, and am perfectly okay with them staying in their corners of the house while I stay in mine.
So uhhhh… Can someone explain the joke I’m too scared to try and understand? I assume it’s in the same vein as "the MELTdown " on the reddit grilled cheese page
- tobogganablaze ( @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ) English5•17 days ago
I did in another reply to the comment you just repied to.
- Miles O'Brien ( @SARGE@startrek.website ) English8•17 days ago
Lmao that’s what I get for leaving the page up for twenty minutes without hitting “submit reply”
- tobogganablaze ( @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ) English7•17 days ago
lol, I’ve been there.
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English3•16 days ago
I somehow cannot see your explanation :( I can see the clarification regarding the “sentient dot” but not the “brown recluse”.
- tobogganablaze ( @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ) English4•16 days ago
To expand more on the meme side: It’s a notorious problem in spider communities that every brown spider will at some point be called a brown recluse by … less educated people. Which can lead to innocent spiders being killed just for their skin colour! Which is why there are usually rules that prohibit layman from identifying medically significant spiders.
The spider in the picture is a tarantula, so very obvious not a brown recluse. That’s the joke. It’s funny here, but seriously don’t make that joke on an actual spider community, none of the residents will think it’s funny.
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English1•16 days ago
Ah thanks <3
- howrar ( @howrar@lemmy.ca ) English17•17 days ago
So what are these sentient dots? I keep seeing them everywhere, but no one else around me does. This is the first time I’ve seen anyone else acknowledge their existence.
- lemmyng ( @lemmyng@lemmy.ca ) English22•17 days ago
Red spider mites. They’re plant pests.
- tobogganablaze ( @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ) English14•17 days ago
Red spider mite is the common name for Tetranychus urticae. That’s quite the specific ID for such a terrible picture. I don’t think it’s correct, Trombidiidae seems more likely (and those are predators).
- lemmyng ( @lemmyng@lemmy.ca ) English10•17 days ago
You know what, I think you are right. I was hasty and the shape fits your suggestion better.
- tobogganablaze ( @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ) English6•17 days ago
Seems to be a mite (possibly red velvet mite).
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English3•16 days ago
If you ever wonder what lives around you (and you have not the worst phone/camera), you could take pictures of it and upload it to iNaturalist. It is such a great site/app to learn about all the organisms around you :)
- YourPrivatHater ( @YourPrivatHater@ani.social ) English7•17 days ago
The long legs boys are the best. The weaver ones and the Hunters.
- tobogganablaze ( @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ) English1•16 days ago
Something about those legs just makes me want to call them daddy.