Birds also only eat spiders they see. Not sure how that’s any different
well…birds aren’t real…soooo…
Good point…
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We have a few mildly dangerous ones and I have kids.
Our rule is if the spider stays in his world we leave it alone, if it’s in ours, they may be out of luck. The doorway is a neutral zone along with usually the entryway and questionably the kitchen.
That’s why I only kill the roaches that venture into my house, if I see a roach in the street I leave it alone to thrive that way all future offspring will be selected for street only living.
Good, we should make them even more reclusive and smarter. Honestly, an army of highly intelligent bug killers specialized in keeping out of my sight hiding in the interstices of my house sounds like an awesome idea
I don’t kill spiders. They are my unpaid exterminators.
In our house the rule is spiders can stay if they’re out the way (up high, etc). When they get too close for comfort for my wife’s tolerance limits, I pick them up and put them outside. Spiders are friends.
That almost rhymed, how about:
In our house the spiders can stay
If they’re out of the way.
If they get too close,
Then it’s time to vamo(o)seSpiderbro does an important job eating the more annoying bugs.
Why kill spiders? Oh, maybe it’s Australia.
Nah, still doesn’t make sense. They kill the mozzies and the blowies for us.
The reclusiveness selection argument makes sense, but why intelligence? Brains are crazy metabolically expensive, and I can’t see why a smart reclusive spider would survive humans any better than a merely reclusive one.
It wouldn’t. They just added that in there for the scaries and they probably didn’t think it through much.
Probably thought that you need to be smart to hide well, which is not at all how it works for most animals but IS how it works for humans.
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This is why you shouldn’t kill rattlesnakes. If we kill the rattlesnakes that make themselves known, over time they adapt to not rattle before striking.
fine by me. as long as i don’t see them, they don’t exist.
I recognised this problem years ago and decided to also let them eat bugs in plain sight. Unfortunately my house isn’t big enough to counter evolution on my own, but I feel there is more people out there who also stopped killing spiders because of this.
I like smarter spiders, but not the cost of getting there.
Aren’t they already smart?
Am I missing something here? Why is everyone talking about spiders
open it in the original instance
It’s the same no matter where I open it.
this works for me https://piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone/posts/Kj/vc/KjvcmUDWH6TS0E5.jpg
either way it’s a showerthought about humans being the natural selection for spiders, killing only the ones that come out, effectively selecting them for higher reclusion and intelligence (sorry, on phone so writing the exact text is a hassle)
Ah that one works, thank you. Every time I selected to view the original post or the direct link, it wasn’t that one. Maybe I’ll try poking around to see if I can find an option that gives me that link.
what?
