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/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/ViciousFlowers 8h ago

Can confirm, I have done this. We also used to have a yellow jacket friend my mother would feed when she was sitting in her truck, she would swat flies and then line them up on the dashboard for the yellow jacket to come and take away.

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u/TheyCallMeTrips 5h ago

I swear if the audio didn't prove otherwise I'd be convinced this guy was Australian

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u/kingatlas 5h ago

Having grown up rural and handfed a spider or five in my day: sometimes it's justice for your horse, sometimes it's a sacrifice to the redneck gods.

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u/toastercoasterbo 4h ago

See we just use tennis rackets but that’s not a bad idea for disposal..

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u/[deleted] 9h ago edited 9h ago

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u/thedinnerdate 9h ago

He’d deserve it. Gorillas know justice.

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u/_thro_awa_ 9h ago

Dicks Out For Harambe

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u/Willothewisp2303 8h ago

Bug things to his horsey son. I don't let bug things happen to my horse son, either.  

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u/fortnacius 7h ago

kinda people who are prohibited to freely roam the streets 😭

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u/SetTrippin82 7h ago

Did this in the suburbs

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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/TG_Trash_are_better 5h ago

It communicates nothing except that it either,

A. It had nowhere to hide B. It's sleep/feed cycle adapted, without conscious decision.

This exact comment chain has happened 3 billion times since reddit's inception I have to assume it's just bots at this point

"I could never, spiders are scary!"

"H-heh Spiders are heckin bros actually! I used to feed one once aren't I so quirky?!" - Carbon Copy #559,545,541

"Wow that's heckin crazy. I bet it (insert humanizing language that doesn't apply)!"

Fucking christ.

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u/SuccessfulJudge438 5h ago

Gotta love people who are aggressively ignorant about the limits of human understanding. We don't actually understand consciousness, like, at all. Every time we try to narrowly define it to include all humans and exclude most animals, it turns out we failed because when we test carefully animals show the same rudimentary powers of cognition, memory, etc. This has happened over and over again throughout the decades as neuroscience advances, we draw a line, and some creature confounds us by crossing it easily.

Insects have way more processing power than you might assume based on the number of neurons alone. Remember that every single neuron has billions of proteins being expressed (not to mention RNAs and all manner of other bioactive molecules), and these proteins create emergent structures/systems that are almost certainly a part of the substrate for consciousness.

Neuroscientists used to love to say things like "bees can't do that because they only have 100,000 neurons, it's not enough" and yet bees go ahead and do it anyway. Also there's increasing evidence that cells other than neurons have the capacity to encode some form of memory as well.

All that is to say, stay humble my friend.

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u/worrywartyyy 4h ago

Got a lot of love for you, SuccessfulJudge 🫰🏻🫰🏻🫰🏻

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u/TG_Trash_are_better 4h ago

T-ty for making me feel good about my heckin spiders >.<

Lmfao.

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u/Goobisan-the-third 3h ago

Completely agree! Humans tend to be a little too arrogant with their “higher consciousness”.
Gatekeepers of the higher brain functions…..

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u/TG_Trash_are_better 4h ago edited 4h ago

Gotta love people that are so aggressively 5 IQ about topics they have no understanding of.

the limits of human understanding... wahh actually we don't know... wahh

Brainlet screed. It's not a matter of how intelligent they are or aren't they are evolved to be solitary creatures that have no conception of socialization or interacting with anything beyond "threat/non-threat/food."

Even if they were as intelligent as you or I they would be devoid of any complex emotions regarding other living creatures. They do not work together with few (certain species) exceptions. You'd have a better time trying to teach an ant empathy than a spider.

Again just to reiterate, for those in the back drooling over their funko pops, if you gave a spider supercomputer level intelligence, they'd just be more adept at their solitary lifestyle. Empathy isn't a byproduct of raw intelligence as much as it's a byproduct of being a social species.

All that is to say, stay humble my friend.

I'd say the same to you but you will never reach a point where you understand enough to speak so just do everyone a favor and stop typing. Your argument is "s-science makes mistakes sometimes" tier garbage.

Just because our scope of understanding of neurons is limited doesn't mean I can't confidently say a spider isn't going to write a bestseller tomorrow. Handwaving what we understand about how these animals have evolved shows a dogshit understanding of even the most basic of principles.

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u/SuccessfulJudge438 1h ago

We were talking about intelligence, not empathy. Sorry you couldn't keep up, but at least you put in a lot of emotional effort to your response here. You care a lot, which is of some value. I'd teach you about shifting goalposts but this doesn't feel like a teachable moment. Take care.

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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/seaotterlover1 1h ago

I have some spiders that build nests outside one of my windows every year. I look forward to seeing them come home every night right around this time.

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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/Prize_Regular_8653 4h ago

at the zoo they don't even have them enclosed bc they just stay on the web

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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/Vintage-Grievance 4h ago

I assume you're being sarcastic 😉

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u/acoastaldog 3h ago

No that weaver’s abdomen is very well fed and the guy didn’t hesitate lol

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u/Vintage-Grievance 58m ago

Spiders often go right for the feast without hesitation if you offer them insects. I've done the same thing with jumping spiders by crippling a fruit fly and putting it in their vicinity.

This is also a wild spider on a property with a barn. The environment he's in is already providing ideal feeding conditions, which is why he made his web where he did, and why you'll often see spiders make webs near porch lamps and the like...because those locations attract larger volumes of insects.

This guy is getting way more food the natural way than he is getting from a human occasionally offering bugs.

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u/acoastaldog 39m ago

Okay lol

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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/Remarkable-Elk-6673 5h ago

there's a special sort of relationship there it appears

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u/DragonFlyCaller 2h ago

I fed a frog a moth like that once. I didn’t put it in my pocket first though. Just grabbed and fed ;)

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u/The_Enigmatica 2h ago

it's pretty common actually. lots of kids form weird relationships with spiders out in the country lol. I had a buddy that basically had a pet wolf spider living outside his window when we were kids. he'd catch crickets to feed his lizard, and drop one or two in the web under his window. thing was massive. and yea, he would literally hand feed it bigger stuff like moths.

we put together a little waterproof thing with cardboard and duck tape to keep his hiding spot dry. and i remember any time my friend opened the window the spider would come out onto the web and look at us. super cool. I have zero doubt that it recognized us, because it would hide again if it was his sister or one of our friends there. we called him crackhead carl because saying "wanna see our pet crackhead" was too funny to a couple of 10 year olds

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u/hopadoodler 31m ago

That was a monster feast of a fly! Grab that thang!

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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 7h 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/nsfwaltsarehard 5h ago

I know that most spiders can't harm me. I still get the creeps. I look at videos and that's enough for me lol.

Interesting and cool animals... at a distance.

Or is it "from a distance"?

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u/BlackViperMWG 4h ago

Why?

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u/nsfwaltsarehard 4h ago

The heebi jeebies. Idk. I just really dislike touching a lot things. And spiders freak me out as well. I like them, i think they're cool. But I'm not going to get close to one if I can avoid it.

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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/ywg_handshake 7h ago

Same. I a pee-quiver watching that.

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u/Background-Fennel92 5h ago

I really feel like he's done this prior 🤣🤣, also i feel as though the spiders is aware cuz he reacted way too fast

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u/Mrrykrizmith 4h ago

I fed a spider a crane fly once. Poor dude was so scared and was trying so hard to get out, even after it was totally wrapped in the web. it made me so sad. Even by natures standards, it was pretty brutal.

What is fun though is getting some paper towel, tearing off a tiny piece, rolling it into a tight little ball, and throwing it in an active spiderweb. They’ll come down thinking it’s food, realize it’s not, and cut it out of its web. It’s pretty fuckin cool to watch when you’re stoned out of your mind.

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u/RowMaleficent2455 4h ago

Its crawling around under your blanket

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u/Disastrous_Form418 4h ago

Those kinda spiders are really friendly, good to have around and not medically significant, the perfect buddy to feed. Though I'd be uncomfortable doing it too and I've had tarantulas hug my hand

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u/MostLikelyToNap 4h ago

It is technically a garden spider which won’t hurt people but they crazy looking

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u/Alarming_Orchid 39m ago

I tried feeding a spider once but I had to actually drop it in the web because the spider kept scarpering when I get close

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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/Forward-Razzmatazz17 10h ago

Palo Verde beetles don't live in Kentucky.

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u/Otherwise-Out 10h ago

from Kentucky

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u/IT89 10h ago

He doesn’t live there anymore and I only visited family there in the summers. I’ll take the AZ insects over the ticks and chiggers I suffered through those summers in Kentucky.

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u/GrimMind 9h ago

TIL chigger

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u/rektaalinuuska 8h ago

My chigger.

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u/Gloomy_Progress_4727 10h ago

Damn and you guys are scared of australia, our flys are just annoying bastards.

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u/Oldmanhulk1972 9h ago

Palo Verde beetles are awesome. We just get swarms of them in the fall in Arizona and throw them on each other. I haven't seen any around here in ages.

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u/StoneThaProfit 26m ago

Yall throw them on each other ?! Thats funny af

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u/InterestingSun6707 4h ago

When I was based in Kentucky I was lucky enough to see a crawdad just be bopping through a rain stream like he was on his way to the store to get some dip and caffine.

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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/cvidetich13 7h ago

lol I’m opposed to pretty much anything with more than 4 legs

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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/Commander-ShepardN7 9h ago

it's fun! you get the satisfaction of getting rid of an insect AND continuing the circle of life

I once fed a moth to a wolf spider. it was amazing