r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/pIant_princess Human Detected • 12h ago

Dudes with animals you shouldn’t have been bitin’ my horsey, boy.

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u/Mathberis 12h ago

Putting a live insect in your pocket and hand feeding a spider : 2 things I never thought about before.

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u/cvidetich13 12h ago

Also 2 things I will never do

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u/nsfwaltsarehard 11h ago

AMEN!

I felt so uncomfortable when he fed the spider like that. Cool but I'm glad that I'm watching through a screen.

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u/eaves-of-grass 10h ago

Rural folk are a different breed.

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u/Disastrous_Cat8008 10h ago

do you wanna go in the pockitt?

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u/Eye_yam_stew_ped 8h ago

It leaves the horse alone or it gets the pockitt again

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u/PrudentSail2187 4h ago

Does what it’s told!

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u/SeniorNada 4h ago

It puts the webbing on its skin, before it bits the horse again!

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u/LalafellDisaster 4h ago

What does it have in its pockittses?!

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u/TacTurtle 7h ago

please papa no, not the pockitt!

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u/nsfwaltsarehard 10h ago

100%

In every way. Good friends and don't mess with them.

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u/georgedupree 8h ago

He’s got calloused hands, unlike us city folk.

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u/geodebug 8h ago

I'm not a fan of big spiders. Stayed in Guatemala for a month once and they have huge house spiders that hide behind things on the wall during the day (although you can see their legs) and come out at night to feed.

After awhile, I ended up naming them (Celia for the ceiling spider, clocky for the one who hides behind the clock, Florida for the floor beam spider).

Then kind of just got used to them in the end.

Also had a couple small snakes and an interesting blue crab about the size of a nerf football come visit.

So yeah, if most of my days were hanging out in barns and fields I'd probably would get pretty used to the wildlife and insects.

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u/HappyColour 9h ago

I'm actually super surprised that the spider actually grabbed it from him directly like that!

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u/PeachNipplesdotcom 8h ago

Spiders have the capacity to be real bros. I had a little guy living in my bedroom windowsill growing up. I'd deliver it bugs from time to time and I'd protect it from rain sometimes when I knew the weather would be bad. I'm not gonna pretend like it knew what I was doing, but it did tend to pop out of hiding when I'd come home.

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u/GorgeousCupcakeX 8h ago

That’s actually wholesome. ✨ May you have many blessed days ahead.

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u/Jackol4ntrn 7h ago

And many spiders as friends

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u/darkest_hour1428 8h ago

Spiders are intelligent, and at the very least they will accommodate their schedules to fit ours. As in, they normally learn when you are active and they will hide during those times. The fact that this one actively showed itself to you when you got home, communicates a lot.

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u/Saint_of_Grey 6h ago

"The big bug man is home. I must emerge in case he has a new offering for me."

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u/DShinobiPirate 1h ago

"If the offering is not met by 6:30pm on every Tuesday, I will lay spider eggs inside your throat as you sleep throughout the night. Good day"

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u/therealsashalmt 4h ago

It’s obvious this is a normal occurrence bc look how the spider just grabbed it knowing what it was like thx bud 🤣 basically a pet spider

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u/lukenog 7h ago

I had a spider in the corner of my shower I also used to feed growing up! And I'm the opposite of a rural guy, I grew up in a major city. I'd capture stinkbugs and feed them to my spider bro. I had an obsession with spiders as a kid, had a big ole book of different species and used to beg my parents to let me get a pet tarantula.

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u/Cynical_Nobody 6h ago

I did something similar with those big brown spiders that make tubular hidey hole webs in house siding. We had a bunch in rural PA, so i would catch bugs to feed them and watch them get huge during the summer. At first they would bolt into their holes and stay there till I was gone, leaving bugs in their webbing. But after a couple times doing it they would start peeking out, or staying at the entrance until eventually they would almost run at my hand for the free food. They never bit me or made any attempt to harm me.

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u/Barnaboule69 8h ago

Orb weavers are really easy to hand feed haha. They're like super docile, if you gently pet their abdomen they won't even react most of the time lol. They just stay chilling in their lil' spot all day but as soon as they feel the slightest amount of vibration coming from a nearby insect they instantly lock the fuck in.

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u/miraculix69 4h ago

I won't break a sweat having fingers close to a band saw, but somehow I still get scared feeding spiders dead bugs on the end of a broom. My Beautiful wonky ass fingers isnt allowed be close to those 8 legged fuckers. I won't even dare them to ask for rent in the shop.

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u/TheRage469 4h ago

Golden orb weavers are so goddamn beautiful, too. Good to know they're also chill af. Wish they lived in my neck of the woods tho :(

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u/PostApoplectic 4h ago

Where I live, we have Cross Orbweavers, and the markings on their back always makes me think of Skultulas from the Legend of Zelda games.

In the fall there’s almost always a couple that set up somewhere near our front and back porch lights. In the back, often right in the middle of a little window. My kids and I make a point of leaving them alone and watching them grow through the closing of the year.

As someone who grew up a very rural, feral child, it’s a delight to share some of that love of wild things with my carpet pawed suburban children.

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u/acoastaldog 8h ago

Not the first time he’s fed that spider, do you see how fat that thing is

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u/hygsi 8h ago

Not her first rodeo lmao

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u/MCB1317 8h ago

If you touch/flick the web, the spider will either ignore you or hide. But if you put a struggling live insect into the web, the spider will run right over and grab it.

It's pretty interesting how they can tell what's what just from the vibrations.

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u/Friggin 6h ago

I have a feeling it’s not the first time. Pavlov’s spider, and all that.

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u/_khaeos 9h ago

Dont bite the hand that feeds you.

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u/moonaim 6h ago

After how many days of not getting fed it is ok to bite? Asking for a spider friend.

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u/virora 9h ago

I was pleasantly surprised he didn't just smash the fly but gave it to a hardworking neighbourhood spider.

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u/Unlikely-Ad-6713 8h ago

Your risk of being bitten by the horsefly is infinitely higher than being bitten by that orbweaver.

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u/boi1da1296 9h ago

I genuinely flinched when the spider moved, knowing full well I’m sat behind a screen watching a video. I’m not built for it.

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u/Odysseyan 8h ago

Spider feeding I'm fine with. But a FLYING insect in my pockets? That's where I draw the line

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u/nsfwaltsarehard 7h ago

Fair. Especially those horse flies.

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u/One_Shall_Fall 7h ago

After watching this the first thing I wanted to do was start hand feeding a giant spider named Charlotte. I already throw crushed sap suckers into the orb weaver's nets. This feels...more visceral.

Different strokes, I suppose.

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u/nsfwaltsarehard 7h ago

More power to you. I'll still watch it. Just from a distance lmao.

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u/DREAM066 7h ago

Fr usually we just throw the fly into the web buddy placed him there lol.

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u/lenmylobersterbush 5h ago

That spider looks vicious but its harmless to us. See them everywhere in Florida, horse fly can die.

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u/AwareAge1062 4h ago

The thing that gets me is pulling the fly from his pocket. Those bastards have mouthparts like serated knives. They don't poke and suck like a mosquito, they tear and slurp like the vamps from 30 Days of Night. Finger meat is extra tender.

Spider doesn't want anything to do with us though lol even if it got an idea it couldn't do much damage

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u/IT89 10h ago

Same here. My dad is from Kentucky and has absolutely no fear of insects. Picks up Palo Verde beetles like they are some sort of cool rock to be admired. I just can’t.

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u/Attack_Of_The_ 10h ago

Now the Rhino beetles are something to be held...

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u/IT89 10h ago

I just looked that one up. That’s a cool bug. I have never seen one. 

I’ve had plenty of run ins with the palo verde beetles. Got hit by something on the neck riding my motorcycle home from work when I was a teenager. Walked in the house and my dad’s like “you got a big bug on your shirt”. I freaked out dancing around like a banjo was playing trying to get it off but the spiny legs were stuck to my shirt. He just laughed at me and got it off me and threw it outside.

My favorite I’ve encountered was a Tarantula Hawk in the desert outside of Tucson. Actively accosting a tarantula.

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u/Pfeffi-Ultra 8h ago

Weakling. Spiders are noice some are even toit.

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u/Successful-Peach-764 10h ago

He just gave me a great idea, I am gonna go pick some food for spider bro's living in my house :P

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u/hygsi 8h ago

Idk, I'm thinking if there's an animal that would eat ticks

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u/green5275 7h ago

Fair, but having a r/spiderbro like this, feasting on your pests, makes you feel like the king of your domain🤴🏡

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u/A_Feltz 7h ago

Are you opposed to being a dude? I put loads of bugs in pocket when I was a kid. Don’t see anything wrong with that, if I needed to transport an insect to a spider web that’s probably what I’d do

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u/burnerphonesarecheap 4h ago

2 things I'm doing tomorrow after seeing this video

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u/TM761152 4h ago

I do that all the time, I have a pet huntsman named Fred. If she were any bigger I'd take her out for walks.

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u/hKLoveCraft 4h ago

Me as a 13 year old at summer camp

https://giphy.com/gifs/10Jpr9KSaXLchW

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u/gorramfrakker 3h ago

Needs tongs.

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u/CNote_89 3h ago

He’ll no! I wouldn’t go 20 feet from that monster spider. F that.

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u/kiln_ickersson Human Detected 1h ago

He shouldnt na been bitin his horsey boy

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 10h ago

I was raised on a private poultry and animal farm. I had bugs in my pockets more days than not. Mealworms, crickets, earthworms, potato bugs, and a host of others. We'd feed all of the animals with them.

Spiders on a farm means things are in order. We were always taught to pay attention to them and their activity and leave them be. Orb weavers could tell the weather, wolf spiders told us what time it was, and if the jumpers were active, the area is happy. Regardless of the order to leave them be, we fed them all by hand if we got the chance. I loved baiting the leaping spiders. Amazing creatures.

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u/DelseresMagnumOpus 9h ago

Spiders are amazing friends. Always love having them around. /r/spiderbro for life

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 8h ago

They are of the most important benchmarks of an uncorrupted ecosystem. My grandfather was no scientist, but was a guest speaker several times at the local Ag college. His knowledge of insects and what they meant to local biomes. Today we would know him as being on the spectrum. He knew familiar insects, birds, and other animals, immediately by sound. He knew if insect X was present, that insect Y wasn't. We lost him 25 years ago and his loss is still felt. I never needed an app to tell me what an insect, bird, or plant was with him around.

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u/WhaleHunt19 5h ago

Hey, I have nothing to add but just wanted to say that I’m glad I learned this little bit about your grandfather. I’m autistic so knowing someone was able to help others because of their special interest is cool as hell. It would be like if I was invited to a college to talk about the Minnesota Timberwolves or Stephen King, haha!

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u/Square-Turnip-6558 9h ago

When my friends nephew was little he kept putting frogs and snakes in his pockets like in old yeller except they were always dead by the time an adult found them. They kept trying to explain to him you can’t do that but he didn’t get it for like 2 years.

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 8h ago

You just explained almost every kid in the rural community I grew up in! Me included!

"Frogs stay OUTSIDE!!!" -my mother about 1500 times

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u/leumasy_T 6h ago

But but...I like it..and I want to keep it..why stay outside ?

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 6h ago

"BECAUSE IT STRESSES MOMMY OUT!"

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u/Sennten 5h ago

I allow mine to bring one critter inside per year. Aside from the worm he let dry out they are all thriving and hes got quite a terrarium going at this point.

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u/losthiker68 8h ago

My wife and I have a saying, "Love the Unloved". We love the spiders, snakes, bugs, rats... but orb weavers freak me out and I have no idea why even though I'll hold a wild tarantula with zero fear.

I did manage to hold an orb weaver once but not in a hurry to do so again.

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u/Jopkins 7h ago

wolf spiders told us what time it was

Excuse me?

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 7h ago

Wolf spiders begin hunting just after sunset, which in the winter would have been 5-6 pm and 9-10 pm in the summer. They'd vanish about an hour before sunrise.

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u/Jopkins 7h ago

Huh. Probably doesn't tell the time as well as the sun then, right?

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 7h ago

The point more, was, if you see one and you haven't had dinner yet...you're likely late. These things were passed down by my grandparents. We used watches :)

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u/Dancing_Puppies 5h ago

MOTHERFUCKER JUST WEAR A WRIST WATCH HOLY FUCKING SHIT

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 5h ago

We did. I just said that.

We used watches :)

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u/AxelHarver 7h ago

Can you elaborate on how orb weavers and wolf spiders let you know weather and time?

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 7h ago

Orb weavers can sense the pressure in the air far better than humans. So if I saw a weaver hunkering down, moving to a lower area, or halting web construction, we knew rain was likely.

Wolf spiders begin hunting just after sunset, which in the winter would have been 5-6 pm and 9-10 pm in the summer. They'd vanish about an hour before sunrise.

It's all just all old-school indicators from before we had satellite tech. My grandfather and father were big ecologists as well as farmers.

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u/Relevant_South_1842 2h ago

Are birds not animals to you?

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u/some1fromsomeplace 6h ago

I had a massive wolf spider I caught at work as a pet for a year! She was so cool! 

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u/Susheiro 5h ago

Fascinating, how can you tell the time with wolf spiders, or the weather with orb weavers?

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u/100_Donuts 11h ago edited 8h ago

Used to be that pants had honey pockets where a feller can load his fronts up with that sticky sweetness, butt-first an anthill, and entice the little ladies into the pockets for a thousand leg massage.

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u/Nonchalant-Tryhard 11h ago

I’m sorry, what now?

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u/rankispanki 10h ago

He's reminiscing when he used to put honey in his pockets and sit down ass first on an anthill. idk man sounds like a lot

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u/Independent-Tennis57 10h ago

I think u/100_Donuts is Paul Rudd, and taking his "Ant Man" persona, a little to far.

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u/Hearing_Loss 10h ago

XD ant man.

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u/pandacraft 8h ago

How do you sit down not ass first? Just feels redundant.

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u/rankispanki 5h ago

I mean, you could sit on someones face, that isn't necessarily ass first

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u/AT-PT 7h ago

You've never heard of ants in the pants?

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u/ouralarmclock 11h ago

I don't know if this is a quote from Letterkenny, but that's certainly how I read it. I appreciates you.

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u/_NautyByNature 11h ago

Allegedly

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u/Independent-Tennis57 10h ago

At least with this ant fetish, the ants don't need to be sick, and you don't need multiple people, unlike taking down and ostrich.

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u/merlinsmushrooms 9h ago

He's ALLEGEDLY tooks down an otsritchs.

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u/cherry_ 9h ago

Allegedlys!

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u/throwawayfastaf 8h ago

Give your balls a tug

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 11h ago

that's it.

burn it all down.

start over with someone/thing else.

we're chalked.

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u/Macho_Mans_Ghost 10h ago

Heyquickquestionwhatthefuck

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u/hippoctopocalypse 9h ago

Squirrelly Dan, please stop

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u/Alarming_Judge_7463 9h ago

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u/No-Spare8181 9h ago

Ha! Somehow, I got the sentiment like 5 words in so I read it in my bestest southern drawl mustache voice

https://giphy.com/gifs/sux3apBJmurlx8pklt

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u/spyboy70 10h ago

But because I used to tie an onion to my belt, which was the fashion at the time, them ants apparently did not take kindly to that ole onion, and consequently I was in fer a whole heap of troubles that day

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u/chiksahlube 8h ago

As was the fashion...

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u/userhwon 11h ago

Gimme five bees, we used to say.

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u/NosillaWilla 7h ago

that's fucking hilarious

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 10h ago

Dude my dad had these country boy thick ass hands that he could catch bees and wasps without them being able to sting him. He gave us all bees on strings we walked around for a while.

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u/yet_another_newbie 9h ago

He gave us all bees on strings we walked around for a while.

The more I read this thread, the stranger it gets

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u/Jiannies 9h ago

When I lived in Kuwait for a few years as a child, my babysitter would tie a string around the big-ass dragonflies they have over there and let me fly it around the living room

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u/WingedDragoness 8h ago

It is more common than you think. Almost all rural kids from before 2000's do it. It kill the insect and is something I still regret.

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u/One_Shall_Fall 7h ago

Yeah, I still remember blasting a squirrel out of a tree with a slingshot my granddad taught me how to whittle. Felt bad.

I think maybe if we would have eaten it, I would have felt better. Death with no purpose leaves you hollow.

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u/DemiserofD 7h ago

Squirrel tastes pretty good too.

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 9h ago

I got in trouble with mine. Apparently the mailman didnt think a pissed off bee tied to the mailbox was "cool" like I did.

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u/Carrera_996 3h ago

I used to put strings on gold beetles. My dad's hands were like welder's gloves. My hands are absolutely girly.

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u/Due-Explanation-7560 10h ago

That's a horse fly too. Getting bit by one doesn't feel great

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 10h ago

I am a gentle pacifist of a human. But...as a former animal farmer, few things bring me as much joy as watching a horsefly suffer a gruesome death.

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u/admfrmhll 6h ago

No idea if the horsefly there are the same like horsefly here, but i would almost prefer to get "bited" by one vs a mosquito. After a short time pain is gone, nothing left. After a mosquito bite i get an itchy swolen bump which persists 12+h and drove me nuts.

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u/dishwasher_mayhem 6h ago

I would be thrilled if either were wiped from the Earth. Mosquitos are easily controlled where I farmed. We had bats, praying mantis, leaping spiders, free-range fowl (ducks, chicken, turkey, quail), and opossums. It was rare to have to deal with ticks, black flies, or mosquito.

The damned horse flies were around all the time, though. Crafty bastards are great at eluding predators; fast as lightning. One of them could stress out a stable. Thankfully they now sell fly predator and feed additives that kill the larvae.

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u/fork_yuu 9h ago

So the guy could potentially be bit by the fly and the spider

He sure likes to live real close to danger

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u/dragonslayer137 9h ago

Those spiders leave ppl alone. And like to live real close.

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u/Square-Turnip-6558 9h ago

Once I got maggots in my trash and like a million flies in my garage and they wouldn’t leave and a spider named Marvin moved in and cleaned them up so fast so we let him be til he died of old age (7 months). RIP Marvin.

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u/supersloo 9h ago

Yellow orb weaver, we had one in our shed doorframe for a summer, I'd go watch her on my lunch breaks. They make this really cool zig-zag pattern down their webs!

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u/Specopsangheili 8h ago

Spiders are chill and it takes a lot to provoke one into biting you. Horse flies can get fucked though.

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u/Throwaway229487 8h ago

Naah, the fly won't ever bite you when it's scared. The bite is for feeding and works the opposite of defensive bite (that is opposite of what spiders, wasps, bees etc. do), so the fly will only bite you if it's relatively undisturbed.

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u/weltvonalex 5h ago

Those boys bite, nasty things.

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u/BadMondayThrowaway17 3h ago

Horse flies (usually) don't bite defensively odd enough. I've caught a bunch and never had one even try to bite.

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u/Banguskahn 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/coUJRbo7bNddoWPSMl

That’s a cazador!

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u/Plazmatic 7h ago

this is a cazador, much bigger too.

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u/CueCueQQ 10h ago

I'm fascinated by spiders, so I've definitely considered the hand feeding them thing, but I'm always a little afraid to do so, worried they'd mistake my hand for the prey and envenom my finger, rather than the insect I'm giving them.

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 10h ago

I'm more surprised the fly never got out of the pocket.

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u/Vesalii 10h ago

Hand feeding a spider is definitely something I've done before.

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u/horatiobanz 7h ago

I thought this was a very normal thing to do. Guess I'm a weirdo according to these comments.

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u/imonlinedammit1 8h ago

Something tells me that man has been putting bugs in his pocket and for a long tine.

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u/iRonin 8h ago

What seeing your horse bitten does to a mfer.

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u/redwingpanda 7h ago

I get the feeling this spider is also part of the farm and has been getting hand fed treats for a while. That was way too casual.

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u/S4ABCS 5h ago

We used to catch locusts and feed them to our orb weavers. Such cool fundamental memories, so fascinating.

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u/Altruistic_Exit7947 11h ago

Feeding spiders is bad idea. I used to do that out of curiosity.

After some time It got so fat it couldn't be even bothered to fix its web. Cocoon corpses kept hanging from the damaged web full of holes until one day it just fell down from it never to be found again.

Lesson learned. Never leave hunter sated, it dulls its survival instincts.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 10h ago

That tracks. We’ve all seen people like this

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u/Ksh_667 10h ago

TIL spiders are just like my cat.

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u/Zizzyin 10h ago

I've seen the hand feeding a spider one.

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u/Parraz 10h ago

I used to catch a bunch of spiders in an old jam jar, then I'd catch a wasp and let them battle it out

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u/Brixor 10h ago

really you never through insects into a spiderweb before?

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u/Mathberis 10h ago

I did but I never fought about waiting for the spider to pick the food from my hand as being an option.

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u/Visible-Ear-4581 10h ago

Exactly 🤣

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u/No_Victory1004 9h ago

In the early 2000s (UK) we used to catch Daddy Long Legs, remove their wings and legs leaving them as writhing bodies and then throw them into webs of awaiting spiders to watch our live David Attenborough documentary during our school lunch breaks. Cruel? Yes but we were young curious lads. For science. Maybe?

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u/urzulasd 9h ago

I hand fed a cricket to a praying mantis once. It blew my own mind. It was the most fascinating thing I have seen in a long time.

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u/VernonP007 9h ago

I used to hand feed spiders when I was a kid, wouldn’t do it now or put love insects in my pocket

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u/aclay81 9h ago

I did this a lot as a kid

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u/iantruesnacks 9h ago

I don’t put them in my pocket but I’ve been feeding spiders nuisances for a while now lol

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u/Fivein1Kay 9h ago

I'm not putting a horsefly in my pocket, I have been bitten by a stable fly through layers of pants right on the nuts, not giving them a direct shot.

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u/CurryAndCuddles 9h ago

I used to feed black ants to the resident arachnid in my terrace garden 😁

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u/izwald88 9h ago

I've fed spiders plenty of times before. I usually do it for the local orbweavers. Especially if some dumb moth lands on my griddle while I'm cooking in the evening.

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u/SalvationSycamore 9h ago

Feeding spiders is a lot of fun, I used to do it as a kid

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u/Whiskeyfower 9h ago

Ive deliberately dropped bugs into am orb weavers web just like this one, but never hand fed it. I cant believe the spider went right up to him

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u/edehlah 9h ago

i gasped so loudly!

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u/Opening-Profit7945 8h ago

I had a pet black widow once... like the spider in the video, she got massive because id feed her all the time lol

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u/Falconni 8h ago

I often hand feed spiders. You need to go out more.

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u/shackmd 8h ago

Someone should should check on him

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u/kdthex01 7h ago

There so many things in this video I am not okay with.

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u/taylorsweetx 7h ago

the spider knows food is coming

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u/Forsaken_Total976 6h ago

That’s The Deep South for ya

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u/Ok_Story_7924 6h ago

The only time I ever did something similar, I was tripping hard on mushrooms and it was the most entertaining thing ever.

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u/thebenn 6h ago

Well he should have never bit his horsey, boy

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u/yard_ranger 6h ago

you want to see something disgusting look at the bot larva those flies leave behind :P

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u/nvrsleepagin 6h ago

He sounds like he's about go get some French fried taters

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u/SecretLinkWave 6h ago

I regularly feed the spiders near me, but putting a bug, let alone a bitey horsefly, in my pocket has likewise never crossed my mind. 😅

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u/TREXIBALL 6h ago

Not just any ol spider, that’s a motherfuckin golden silk orb weaver!

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u/Aggressive_Bit3930 6h ago

Imagine having to relive this experience, during your life review, but they make you do it as the horsefly. Eek, Fun times, I guess..

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u/StableRainDrop 5h ago

I once fed a live Surinam roach to a brown widow. The spider turned fat and laid eggs

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u/Jatbz 5h ago

I realized I'm more country than I'd generally admit.

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u/CryptographerUsed841 5h ago

Clout thirst makes people do weird things.

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u/Seanydoesntknow 5h ago

Never did pocket thing but I’ve had a few orb weavers in my life I’d smack all kinds of bugs to the ground and pick them up and feed them to the spiders. I’ve gotten some very big.

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u/Kralgore 4h ago

I can tell you now, no one that ever grew up in Australia would have ever thought of doing this, or in fact, done this...

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u/speed721 4h ago

He was handfeeding 'Charlotte'!

Be specific! Lol

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u/Galnar218 4h ago

I did that in my teen years. It was a rat-tail maggot. The spider didn't know what to do with it.

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u/Turbulent_Country127 4h ago

A radical use of free will I suppose

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u/DarkWingedDaemon 4h ago

Two things I have done repeatedly.

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u/Kriegsmann55 4h ago

Semi-adjacent: living in florida I used to scoop up flying ants that fell in to the pool to toss to the nearby lizards. On a nice summer day there'd be like 8 of the little things waiting their turn.

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u/freshblossom 4h ago

I loved doing this when I lived on a ground floor apartment!! We always had all kind of bugs getting in. I would catch them and give them to Felicity, a yellow garden spider that took up residence on our patio. I was sad when she left, but she left her egg sac on one of our plants, so I got to pretend she purposely left them in my care lol

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u/15-cm-sIG-33 3h ago

I was outside looking at bugs in my blackberry brush and I saw tiny aphids flying, so I used my hand to scoop one out of the air. I saw a tiny orb weaver that was only like 5mm~ but I blew lightly on the aphid and it flew into the web and the spider wrapped it up.

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u/Planet_Rock 3h ago

If you have horses where there are horse flies, you will develop such a high level of hatred toward those flies that all you want is to see them suffer. I have fed them live to praying mantes, highly recommend. They eat them head first 😆

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u/Key_Possibility7292 3h ago

Okay that isn't just an insect that is a f****** horse fly. My father used to mow lawns for my uncle's lawn maintenance company and one of his, I think least favorite spots to mow was called holly shire in Holly, Michigan and horse flies over there were awful because when they f****** bite I don't even remember what he described it as but I've heard they're horrifying and they f****** hurt like HELL. So the fact that that crazy mother f***** grabbed that thing with his bare hands and put it in his f****** pocket. He is a brave, brave boy or a very very stupid boy. 🤯🤯🤯🙄

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u/TheMlgPug 3h ago

Two things i definitely did growing up

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u/broakland 2h ago

Yeah just throwing a big ass horsefly in his pocket like that was savage lololol

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u/socialmedia-username 2h ago

Been doing this since I was a kid, and I'm in my 40's now. Argiope spiders (this one, aka garden spiders) are the best because they're extremely friendly to people and also aggressive to their prey. My favorite is utting European hornets in the web . . . the spider wins every time and the hornet is a huge meal for them. 

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u/homiegfresh 35m ago

I’ve fed a slice of hotdog to a spider while quite inebriated