These jumping spiders are ravenous, and are ripping through the local population of Diptera.
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These jumping spiders are ravenous, and are ripping through the local population of Diptera.
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I see that you have been posting many substantive articles recently. I also note that you are posting many spider related articles. I’m glad to see both. Am I correct in presuming that the judicious mix of those two distinct types of articles is a means of achieving balance between pleasant activities and doom scrolling?
Of course, Mary wants to attrack birds, for the next trophic level of predation.
Great tits!
(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96737-2)
Sad spider news. When people carefully carry indoor spiders outdoors they are moving them to a habitat they are not optimised for, meaning they will perish. Please let the spiders stay.
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Depends on the spider. In Australia, huntsmen are very well adapted to outdoor life but often move into houses or barns during wet weather. Having said that, there is no need to move them except to placate phobic impulses. Huntsmen almost never bite humans (and always after massive provocation), the bite is usually minor, and they feed on mosquitos without filling corner spaces with webs (they’re ambush predators, not trappers). And if there isn’t enough for them to eat, they’ll move on by themselves.
@ ^ chrislawson : I’ve heard they will starve if left inside though & will relocate them outside carefully for that reason FWIW. I could be wrong.
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The problem is, in which environvent will a specific spider thrive? I don’t know anything about spiders, except “daddy long-legs” can refer to both spiders and non-spiders.
Unless the environment is utterly sterile, it is probably best to let them be.
I imagine that having your guts liquified by a poison would be a pretty nasty way to die.
Is it OK to have empathy for an insect?
StevoR@5–
If they got in they can usually find their own way out.