Comment on Giant spiders the size of rats making a comeback in UK

llamatron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plot twist: they’re already in your house.

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (I’m hacking around with Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead at the moment) Noooooo!!!

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• ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I saw one on the wall when I was staying just outside Guildford. I was in disbelief that I would see such a thing in Europe.

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• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought they looked like the dock spiders we have in Minnesota, turns out they’re the same thing. Utterly terrifying but completely harmless.

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  • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Noooo reading this I thought I was safe being all the way over here :( whyyyy

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• j4yt33@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think you’re likely to ever come across one if you don’t live in a lake, they have only been identified in a handful of places.

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  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They usually are found around the shore or river banks only walking onto the water for hunting. The only spider you will mostly find in a lake a diving bell spiders.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only spider you will mostly find in a lake are diving bell spiders.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell_spider

      The diving bell spider or water spider (Argyroneta aquatica) is the only species of spider known to live almost entirely under water.

      That sounds neat.

      Their bite is often described as being very painful to humans and as causing localised inflammation, vomiting, and slight feverishness that disappears after 5-10 days.

      That sounds less agreeable than the giant raft spider.

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      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Their bite is often described as being very painful to humans and as causing localised inflammation, vomiting, and slight feverishness that disappears after 5-10 days.

        That sounds less agreeable than the giant raft spider.

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        However, solid evidence is lacking

        It’s really hard to get bitten by any spider. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to get bitten by spider that lives underwater. I have to check those wiki sources …

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    • j4yt33@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah I misunderstood that a fen is actually a thing (non-native speaker here). So I correct my original post to “if you don’t live in a fen”

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      • janNatan@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As a native speaker, I’ve never heard the word “fen” in my life. So, that’s probably why they didn’t say that.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they’re apparently 7cm wide including the legs, so more like the size of a mouse and even then it’s being a bit generous.

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s a baby rat. I’m going to believe it’s a baby rat.

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• cheddar@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They hunt fish. There’s no need to worry if you aren’t fish.

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  • llamatron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If only arachnophobia were so logical

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