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Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social |
I keep seeing this BULLSHIT going around so: - they are totally harmless to humans - they're gonna eat spotted lanternflies (which is a good thing)! - Many, many species of spiders "fly". Young spiderlings throw their threads up into the air and catch a ride on the wind it's called ballooning.
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Oden
@odense.bsky.social
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idk still makes me question whether I ever want to travel to the US again
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Doctor Memory
@blank.org
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Also they’re really pretty! I for one welcome our new parasailing arachnid overlords!
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a human, like you
@dying-robot.bsky.social
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still waiting for an update on the murder hornets
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BonkoBoi
@bonkoboi.bsky.social
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spiders make me uneasy but learning about them does make me feel somewhat better about them
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deehellcat
@deehellcat.bsky.social
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whew, glad to hear that. Is this photo authentic, do you know? if so, they are bizarrely pretty!
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CapnMarrrrk
@capnmarrrrk.bsky.social
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Ballooning, which I learned about in a *sigh Piers Anthony novel.
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Braiseee/Nokht
@braiseee.bsky.social
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In my area wr call them bananna spiders. They are so cool and honestly I've never seen one in or near a house. Mostly in the woods.
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Get To Know Nature
@gettoknownature.bsky.social
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The person responsible for this headline should have to take a month long course on spiders and then write a series of positive articles about them
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Proud Anselmo
@proudanselmo.bsky.social
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If only there was a clue...
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@drosgood.bsky.social
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It's an ugly planet. It's a bug planet--a planet hostile to life as we know. . .
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SarraJK
@sarrajk.bsky.social
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We got the Joro spider freakout headlines last year when they moved to my area. I've seen a few in my yard over the last year and they're fine. Big webs, pretty spiders, no eating my face.
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Eelaware
@eelaware.bsky.social
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Love the spotted lanternfly part
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AnarchoArachnid
@anarchoarachnid.bsky.social
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Every year the UK press spreads similar BS about Steatoda (false widows) over here. And every year I get anxious relatives and friends phoning me screaming about the 'deadly spider' they have just found under the sink. Every year I tell them the same ting, 'leave it alone, it's harmless!'
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Neovagina Evangelion
@gammarae.design
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They're so pretty 🥺
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brightshadow is living más 🔔
@brightshadow.bsky.social
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That’s a very fancy looking spoder
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Russ Bengtson
@russbengtson.bsky.social
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let the cool new wave spiders live!
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@anathema_device@bne.social
@iamanathemadevice.bsky.social
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I come from a land of venomous and poisonous things, and that spider is gorgeous!
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marythetrainer🦋🐢🤷🏻♀️😏🌎
@marythetrainer.bsky.social
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Yeah, that headline should be taken out behind the barn and walloped. Still, I’m leery about any nonnative species, even one that feeds on another nonnative. You just can’t know how it’s going to affect the ecosystem.
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Patchouli Woollahra
@woollahra.bsky.social
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ALL spiders are venomous. But only a fraction cause serious problems to humans. Most barely bring enough for prey fitting their size.
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Kaia Vintr
@kaiavintr.bsky.social
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I guess we won't get Joro spiders for a while (if at all) in Toronto, but I'd definitely rather have them than black widow spiders or any kind of scolopendra
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Bruno J. Navarro
@brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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just like in charlotte’s web!
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Cid 🏳️⚧️
@velociriker.bsky.social
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They’re eating the fucking stink bugs too. I hope they also start eating the harlequin lady beetles too.
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DaveAnthony
@daveanthony.bsky.social
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I don't want harmless flying spiders either.
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wendolen
@wendolen.bsky.social
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Finding out that a lot of people never read Charlotte's Web.
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Emotional Support Locomotive
@trainboy.bsky.social
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I was scared until I read that they eat cockroaches and lantern flies and their venom is harmless to humans. What do these colorful fuckers eat and how can I get one or two in my apartment?
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Chris Miller
@thelittlepakeha.bsky.social
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- spiders are cool
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Misandrosaurus Bex
@bexone.bsky.social
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Ok those are like, literally my worst phobic nightmare but if they eat lanternflies I will try to keep the hysterical screaming to a minimum
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Tree Beckemeier
@beckemeier.bsky.social
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Every time I see a lantern fly corpse in a spider web it brings me such joy
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illumi
@illumi.me
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wow. wild. thanks erin!
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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🧪
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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If you don't like spiders that's totally fine I get it. But these headlines are completely sensational and I've seen a bunch of misinformation in these stories and I just need everyone to calm the fuck down.
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Piatto Delgatto
@piattodelgatto.bsky.social
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Yeah, we have these in our garden and they are so cool
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Nessa Carson
@supersciencegrl.co.uk
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I did wonder from afar what the fuss was about... some people just gotta hate wildlife 😢
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Wynn's Folly
@wynnsfolly.bsky.social
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Can I have some come visit? We're overrun with stink bugs on the single squash plant
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SummerDragoness
@summerdragoness.bsky.social
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I saw this on my Google news feed and reported it as misleading and sensationalist. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Rev. Jesus “H" Christ, KSC
@reverendjesus.com
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If you have watched the nature documentary "Charlotte's Web" you should have some idea about how ballooning works
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Kelly “Town House Cracker” McGonigal
@kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social
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As to that last point: I thought we all learned that reading Charlotte’s Web 😩
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Brandy Schillace
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Also is pretty
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Brandy Schillace
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Oh man I hope they eat a LOT of those lantern flies. Can we train them to go after stink bugs next?
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@rheumecraig.bsky.social
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Lantern flies have been weirdly almost absent this year so far in Philly suburb area, even less this year than last, and even that was a noticeable decline. SOMETHING seems to have learned to eat them.
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Keelah🔜AC!
@cruxfat.bsky.social
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I saw this article floating around & internally translated it to: "so someone saw some orb weavers on threads or something 🙄" so ridiculous.
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Gregg Levine
@greggjlevine.bsky.social
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As I read it, they’ll eat anything that gets caught in their webs—they’re not specifically lantern fly connoisseurs. And while, yes, someone needs to eat a mess of those damn flies, I’m not sure the Joros are gonna get it done… and any invasive species makes me sad and uneasy these days.
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Olivia Wertheimer
@kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social
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Oh cool! They're definitely BIGGER than I like the spiders I regularly see to be, but as long as they stay out of my cat's way (he likes hunting bugs and they're colored like a cat toy) then please eat all the lanternflies and stinkbugs, there are too many.
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Jim (he/him)
@wt8p.bsky.social
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You had me at "eat spotted lanternflies"
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CKJohnsonBK
@ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social
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I really cannot wait for these, and also the complete freakout from many of my neighbors. 😂
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Beth
@elizabethoutside.bsky.social
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but what about new york's problem with giant venomous flying snakes?
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@mikenealis.bsky.social
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They throw their threads up in the aiiirrrr-o,saying I'm a spiiiiiido
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beef boy
@beefboy.bsky.social
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these guys used to make a home in the gardens outside my childhood home. my grandmother used to let them crawl up her arm while gardening. they're literally just babies.
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Tired Art Goblin
@spaceturtleart.bsky.social
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Happy that they're eating the invasive lanternflies! Admittedly I would freak out a bit if I saw one, they are so big and brightly colored
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Judi Gunn 🍦
@judigunn.bsky.social
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Just like what Charlotte's babies do at the end of Charlotte's Web!!!
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Zrath-Smiley
@zrath.bsky.social
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How dare you contradict the media's booga-booga agenda?!?
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Are You Being Detained
@sailbarque.bsky.social
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anyone who has ever had the pleasure to read Charlotte's Web knows the wonder of flying spiders
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Yet Another Emily
@anomily.bsky.social
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Did you see this about ballooning? Life is truly wondrous. amp.theguardian.com/news/2020/de...
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Duae
@duaecat.bsky.social
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I really really think English needs different words for "venomous but harmless to humans" "Venomous will generally cause some harmless redness/swelling" "Venomous will fuck up your day/week" "V will fuck up your life" "V can/will END your life" because the range makes the word almost useless
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LA is building with blocks.
@er3shkigal.bsky.social
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I mean, yeah, spiders terrify me, but the headline is wild. Yes? They're venomous? Most spiders are? Is that not basic knowledge???
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Ashford
@ashokhotnik.bsky.social
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I know they're awesome at eating harmful insects and they aren't dangerous but I reserve the right to shriek like a 50s sit-com housewife if I see one.
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Penguin Sentinel
@penguinsentinel.bsky.social
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They can stay on that side of the Atlantic and that way, they and I will not to have a problem.
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Stephanie
@myone.bsky.social
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You sound very Australian right now.
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Eugene
@familiaralien.bsky.social
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I feel like its always deeply misleading to say "venomous spider" because all spiders have venom but the vast majority aren't capable of harming humans with it (and even the the ones that can hurt humans are usually very hesitant to bite one of us).
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Steven DeCaluwe
@drdecaluwe.bsky.social
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Have these people not read “Charlotte’s Web”? 🤔
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Melissa Wong
@favomancer.bsky.social
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Plus when baby spiders balloon I imagine them going "wheee!" as they drift around.
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Phenobarbarella
@phenobarbarella.bsky.social
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Are these the Joro spiders? Can’t tell from that photo.
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Shofar So Good🟣
@shofarsogood.bsky.social
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Are there spiders that don't balloon? I thought that was par for the course for spiderlings.
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Bugge-Finder Private Newton Pulsifer 🏳️⚧️
@apsciencebydan.bsky.social
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I dropped a few comments under the news story posted here, which hopefully headed off a little of the nonsense but 🤷. It's frustrating. Like the most harmless spider on planet earth tbh.
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Daryl Sng
@dsng.bsky.social
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Ballooning is key to the brings-tears-to-the-eyes final part of Charlotte’s Web!
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Free Radical
@freeradical7.bsky.social
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Sounds like a post by a spider from the spider lobby.
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Bo
@bodiva.bsky.social
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Yes. If they’ll eat lantern flies and mouths are too small to bite humans, I’m ok with them. They will startle me though.
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Pete Davidson
@petedavidsonny.bsky.social
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The news isn't news.
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Demmy
@tehdeminz.bsky.social
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that just looks like some kind of orb weaver, who are scary looking sweeties D:
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🍄An Mushroom🍄
@mycotae.bsky.social
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Thank you for this! I get so tored of the fear clickbait articles. We had one here for brown recluses. In Quebec Canada. There has never been a BR here. It's exhausting.
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Wrong Station
@thewrongstation.bsky.social
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Spiders don't only use the wind to balloon, they also use the Earth's static electric field! They can actually achieve lift in windless conditions.
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yazikus
@yazikus.bsky.social
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Also, they are beautiful.
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Widgett Walls
@widgett.bsky.social
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They play their music REALLY loud though.
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Ra's al Dolezal
@senatorivy.bsky.social
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*Rapper's Delight voice* 🎶 So just throw your threads up in the air you're walking on 8 feet with a big derriere 🎶
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jess m. ☁️
@jam-etc.bsky.social
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It's really beautiful, that's gotta be one of the prettiest spiders
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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my personal downside is that their webs are really thick and hard to see, and they are also very big and scary
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Elizabeth Dynan
@lizdynan.bsky.social
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Whoa lady! The way you are trying to normalize these horror movie spiders from hell makes you sound like their PR agent. How can you look at that and say, meh, he's more frightened of you. 😱/
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Tom Wrongbottom 🍦
@wrongbottom.bsky.social
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Trump rally he's gonna ramble on about this. "Flying spiders. Lying spiders. Biden. Am I rite. Biden spiders. Where's the snake poem?!"
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Rain Dog
@brushwolf.bsky.social
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That’s a really striking spider! If it is real, what sort of spider is it?
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Dillon (6 Sided Games)
@6sidedgames.bsky.social
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I love me some spooders. I leave all the ones in my house alone unless they are in a spot that is dangerous to them. At which point I move them somewhere else. I imagine to them, I'm this weird Eldritch being that protects them but periodically destroys their house on accident.
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TaterBugs
@lunakersauzon.operajunkie.net
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The article made it seem like they were accidentally invasive species, and dangerous to native spider species. Were they released intentionally in the US?
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Bazza
@bazza.bsky.social
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And they directly quote one of those pest control companies that likes to tell tall tales about animals to drum up sales; it's a terrible article.
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Agent of the NWO
@ibras.bsky.social
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So you're saying if one of these bites me I won't get super powers?
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Queer and Pleasant Danger
@monsterologist.bsky.social
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I am SO excited for Kingdom of the Spiders!
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Roberto Baldwin
@strngwys.bsky.social
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Eric Adams is going to hire 20k more cops to “protect” NY from this spider
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Home away from the dumpXer fire
@rechan.bsky.social
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At the end of Charlotte's Web, all the spiderlings but 3 fly away.
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@nanoprof.bsky.social
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Yeah, sheesh. It’s the four foot tunneling fanged ambush spiders that people should be freaking about.
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@helchose.bsky.social
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Not to mention almost all observations are in northern GA and AL area, and zero in NYC
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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"Rachel"
@nycteris.bsky.social
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Oh if they eat spotted lantern fly then I am 100% for them
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@the-imposter.bsky.social
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Pretty! I want one to come hang out in my backyard!
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