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.
Oh nooooooo
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jpablo68@infosec.pub 2 months ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I don’t kill spiders. They are my unpaid exterminators.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They accept payment in flies.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
They can have all of them they can catch.
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t think this uploaded correctly
HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Opening the link to this thread in browser works though, so maybe it just isn’t federating properly from the piefed instance?
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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edinbruh@feddit.it 2 months ago
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
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I think it would be kinda cool if the next intelligent species on this planet after we kick the bucket is arachnid.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Children Of Time Intensifies
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
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.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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)serbos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Spiderbro does an important job eating the more annoying bugs.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have zero issues with spiders living in my home, they just have to stay out of my sight.
If they evolve to be better at hiding, it’s a win win.
eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is a real problem, it’s why you shouldn’t kill rattlesnakes. If we kill the rattlesnakes that make themselves known, over time they adapt to not rattle before striking.
Dicska@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So they will be just called snakes.
dddontshoot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Any flies that fly into my house are given a chance to leave. If I can herd them out the window, they get to live and make lots of new baby flies.
On the other hand, their chances of getting a close up view of the fly swatter increase exponentially with every minute they spend refusing to leave and ignoring the fact that I’m literally showing them the exit.
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Huh, coincidentally,I just finished reading Children of Time
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Envious. The next two books are also great (fourth one coming in a couple months)
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I once tried making a similar argument to a game warden about only hunting deer during the day. They were not appreciative of the take.
This was after I hit a deer with my car while driving home from Thanksgiving, it was not a good time.
Arctic_monkey@leminal.space 2 months ago
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.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
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.
Liz@midwest.social 2 months ago
It wouldn’t. They just added that in there for the scaries and they probably didn’t think it through much.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I have the same thoughts about hitting squirrels with my car.
Lightfire228@pawb.social 2 months ago
You’d think we’d have accidentally bred smarter deer by now
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Deer kill more americans than any other animal. If anything they’re becoming more top heavy and more lethal to make drivers hesitate before hitting them.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I think we have. In my area many deer during hunting season spend the time within city limits where it’s illegal to fire guns. I am pretty sure they’ve figured it out.
texture@lemmy.world 2 months ago
this isnt true tho. we kill loads of them without seeing them.
i like the idea tho
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I eat seven spiders every hour
texture@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wow, you must be jacked
Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If I never know that the spider is there then we shall both live a peaceful life.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Why kill spiders? Oh, maybe it’s Australia.
essell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m asking myself whether the humans in Australia became extra dangerous in order to acclimate 🤔
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Leave the big ones alone in Australia. They’re harmless. The ones that need killings are tiny and super venomous.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
i select my spiders based on how effectively they can eat and rid me of the annoying gnats
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
My house spiders are cool. They eat the flies etc and I fish them out of the way before I have a shower. The only disagreement we have is over their little lair in the kitchen. There’s a tiny hole in the skirting board in one corner, and cobwebs gather there. Now and then I brush away the webs and plaster over the hole. A week later the hole is back and the webs too.
chefdano3@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
BunScientist@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
open it in the original instance
FryHyde@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
what?
chefdano3@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It’s the same no matter where I open it.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
I like smarter spiders, but not the cost of getting there.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As long as the spiders don’t break our agreement they can stay. They eat the bugs and pests, and they can live in the corners of my house. As soon as they come to the floor they’re dead.
timeghost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I catch them in a glass and cover the top with a piece of cardboard then dump them outside. Spiders eat bugs. Go be free little guy!
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
fine by me. as long as i don’t see them, they don’t exist.
dragnucs@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Aren’t they already smart?
lucg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think this every time I kill a mosquito or fruit fly but they don’t seem to be getting any faster, smarter, or quieter. Where’s Darwin when you need him?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
There’s just so many that the relative few getting killed by swatting aren’t having an impact on their genetics.
Liz@midwest.social 2 months ago
Also we’ve been doing it for millennia. The evolutionary pressure is already there. These are just the ones with the random mutations that make them slow enough to slap.
It’s like asking why gazzel aren’t fast enough to outrun a lion.
HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Whenever I see a spider in the house, I don’t kill it. I do however, pick up my cat and say, “look dude, move out along before she figures out how to get to you. She will murder your ass.”
The spider, always, leaves.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And cockroaches, too. They’ll haul ass and scurry away every time. They know.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I kill plenty I don’t see, too, whenever I bug bomb my home.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yeah I accidently killed my pet invisible spider :( his name was bob
Hirom@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I only kill spiders without opposable thumbs
bebabalula@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Birds also only eat spiders they see. Not sure how that’s any different
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 months ago
well…birds aren’t real…soooo…
bebabalula@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Good point…
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You’re forgetting all the spiders that crawl into the bird’s mouth while it’s sleeping.
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Nah that’s just spiders beord throwing off the averages.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, any effects we may have on arthropod selective evolution by randomly killing visible spiders is going to be vastly overshadowed by the very rapid and immediate changes we’re making to the environment broadly.
We would need somewhere between centuries or millennia of very predictable and consistent behavior killing visible spiders before we saw any change to their overall behavior, meanwhile we’ve all but destroyed the ecosystem at their scale anyway, which is going to have vastly more dramatic impact on populations and evolution, assuming they survive at all. When was the last time any of you remember getting your windows covered with bugs after a summer drive?