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Feeding a spider by hand is extraordinary.
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I hate horse flies so, thank you Mr. Spider.
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Yes, this was more about killing horseflies than feeding spiders
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No, this fellow ain’t dead.
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But… He’s gone limp as a boned fish? Surely, she isn’t about to have her way with him!
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Old Shelob’s been having a bit of fun!
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Samwise, you fool!
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They used to bite us when we’d swim in our neighbor’s above ground pool in the rural area I grew up in. I remember it being so painful that I’d rather be stung by a wasp. Plus, spiders are so cool and helpful, at least in the US. I’m not trying to be around those Aussie spiders.
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If the spider has a health bar, its too big.
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The one in this video is just an orb weaver. They’re bright colors with crazy patterns, but they’re mostly harmless. Sometimes they’ll act tough but it’s rare for them to actually bite. The biggest spiders in Australia, huntsman spiders, are actually also harmless to humans.
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Giant cockroaches are also harmless but they can stay far away from me. I like wolf spiders and orb weavers. Audacious jumping spiders are my favorite. I let little grass spiders chill too.
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Jumping spiders are absolutely the best. Even I can handle them without worrying.
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Yeah those are literally the only spiders I’m totally cool with touching and having around. Actually daddy longlegs too, but jumpy bois I actually *enjoy* watching. They’re the only spiders I consider friends. The rest can go fuck off forever, thank you kindly.
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They’re definitely the puppies of the spider world.
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Years ago, I was entering the code on my garage door keypad and one of these guys was on the cover. When I realized, I reflexively shut the cover, which knocked it to the ground. I swear until the day I die, that spider turned towards me after landing and raised his front legs up to challenge me. I could almost hear it say “let’s fkn go, cupcake!” Even if I had known then that they’re harmless, I know when I’ve met a superior…
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Spidey had that dog in him
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You ran into the alpha spider that day. You’re lucky they were in a good mood and took it easy on ya!
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No doubt! I’m fairly confident that if I had tried to step on it, it would have just caught my foot and thrown me to the ground
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Orb Weavers are cool because they have the decency to stay outside!
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We call these type of orb weavers banana spiders. There so pretty but scary looking. I love em
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…and if the spider has its own theme song with someone singing in Latin just start running.
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RUN. If you squish it it’ll just come back with a scarier theme and an upgraded moveset.
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I was bit by a horse fly and it was excruciating. It didn’t just pierce, it RIPPED a little patch of skin off my arm about the diameter of a BB. I’m pretty sure that’s an Orb Spinner spider in the video, and those gorgeous critters make some of the most beautiful webs you’ve ever seen. Feed all horseflies to any available orb spinner…for great justice!
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My ex got bit on the hand by a horsefly and the filthy nasty beast (the fly, not the ex) triggered a horrible infection and for a while, he thought he was going to lose a finger to it.
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Thanks for clarify
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**clarifly*
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When I was a kid (6/7), I had one fly down my tshirt while I was out playing and bit me right between the tiddies. All passing cars saw was some kid, alone in his garden, punching the fuck out his own chest. I’ve landed on a wasp hive when I lept across a burn and got chased through the forest while wearing shorts and tshirt, being stung repeatedly… I’d still take that any day over that one bastard cleg bite!!
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We have a hornet nest somewhere near our backyard. On our shed there’s a Marbled Orb Weaver that had a hornet she was eating. Had my 4 year old come over and look at it, to show why we don’t hurt spiders. 2 days later we bought a Regal Jumping Spider (named Lucas of course), and now he loves our 8 legged friends!
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And when you’d go under water they’d hang out waiting for you to come back up. Hate those assholes.
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Same dude, we would dive under water to get away from them and they would wait for us above the water and as soon as you popped up they’d land on your head and bite the fuck out of you. God I fucking hate those things
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Aussie here. You get used to the galloping noise they make after a little while. It just sucks if youre allergic to spider hair and theyre the cuddly sort.
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I learned about Huntsman Spiders as a wee tyke after I watched Arachnophobia and learned that they were the species used in the film. Horrific looking creatures but harmless and really, really cool. The way they move is really freaky at first if you’re not expecting it.
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> the galloping noise they make WTF?
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You can hear them when they run if the house is quiet
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I was bitten on the finger by a small bright green spider once, and it hurt so much it had me rolling on the ground screaming and cursing for a good minute or two. Holy shit does their venom pack a punch. I can only imagine bugs just pass out, going by how overwhelming it was for my gigantic ass. My finger was numb and tingly for around twenty minutes after, then it faded off and everything felt normal again, save for the leftover adrenaline. Crazy experience, though. I just wanted to pick my damn fruit trees.
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Me and my brother became pros at hunting them. We’d use each other as bait, then slap the shit out of each other. lol
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I was traumatized by horseflies on a Yellowstone hike once. Those fuckers could drive a person insane.
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Aren’t those deerflies? Deerflies are wicked smart predators, and they’re so named because they can even bite through ungulate hide. At the height of fly season it’s not uncommon to see moose driven absolutely psycho by them. All they can do is stand in water up to their neck for some relief. Deer flies hunt you. It’s a weird experience when you sense their murderous intent. Those bastards plan and assess.
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As do horseflys. Idk if theyre different or just a different name for the same fly, but the female horseflys actively hunt out and bite people and animals to drink their blood for nourishment when its time to produce eggs.
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Horse flies and deer flies are [different flies.](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkwm5H3gxUbKBbIyhmKTOtRJe5R6zZbXhpScE3BGCEZhs-Bz8&s)
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I was going to say, I see/hear people use them almost interchangeably, but I remember growing up on Minnesota lakes and being bit by what I was told were horse flies. They were just a little bigger than house flies, and unlike house flies they would bite. But then I saw stuff with these much larger ones that actually seem to be around horses/farms more. Upon doing a little googling, though, I think they might’ve actually been blackflies? They also bite, but are the ones found more near water.
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Appreciate the info, sir!
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Deer flies are comparatively easy to kill. A hard swat will do it. Every time I’ve had to kill a horsefly with my hands, it’s require a smack, press, drag, and pop–you have to not just smack it, but then drag the horsefly across your body until you feel it burst. If you just smack it, it’ll just fly away and come back.
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Or rip their heads off. But I disagree. Deerflies are faster, and more agile.
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Deer flies are smaller bastard cousins of the horsefly and both share the masterful speed and agility and a bite that hurts like fucking hell.
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Deer flies work in tandem, too – you’ll miss one, another lands and bites and by the time you’re swatting at that one, the first has done the loop-around and is biting again! Dastardly creatures, the lot.
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I guess I got them confused with the deer flies from my nightmares. They’re so big, you can hear them rubbing their forearms together and licking their proboscis.
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Deer flies are much smaller than horse flies. The one in the video is not a deer fly. Way too big. Rating bugs from worst to least worse, I will always put deer flies at the top. Even though they only operate during daylight hours for 4-5 weeks and don’t really get in the house. Mosquitos are #2 because they operate 24 hours a day, 9 months a year and get in the house. Still, not as bad as deer flies.
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They’re so bloody persistent and those bites are no joke.
C
I had to cinch my rain jacket closed around my face leaving a small opening to keep them away from my face. And it was bloody hot that day. They bit me right through my jeans. I was so drained from that experience that I left two days early.
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Horse flies are fucking awful. Their bite is really painful and they look creepy AF. Keeping feeding him, Seymore!
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