YES. I HAVE BEEN NOTICING.
I’ve noticed the opposite problem: spiders are disappearing.
Last summer my balcony was covered them. This year… well if they’re around, they’re hiding pretty damn well. I can’t find a single web this time around.
I’ve found 2 big ones this last week - one in the bath, and one under the electrics
I want a pet wolf spider the size of a cat
Why aren’t the activists leading with this?!
How dare you swear in my Christian household! We don’t say the dreaded “s” word in this house!
/S
Jokes aside, I wish we could completely get rid of all bugs and insects without harming the planet, especially spiders.
Horrible take. Bugs are cool.
Bugs are more essential to a healthy environment than humans ever will be
Don’t worry, atmospheric oxygen is too low to make gigantic spiders possible.
Oh great, so the giant spiders will have oxygen tanks?
Only if we give them supplemental oxygen as they lack the ability to manufacture and have little to no engineering education.
they lack the ability to manufacture and have little to no engineering education.
…so far.
If you are so inspired, you can follow Nightvale’s example and begin an after-school volunteer ‘Teach a Spider to Read, Stop the Madness’ campaign.
Thank you! I have been “volunteering” there - two days each week - since the City Council thoughtfully invited me to.
If giant spiders existed, I could at least make a living the same way I accumulate gold in a fantasy RPG. 🤷♂️
Only if you went through the trial of the grasses. Those things would be crazy fast
but warming is helping certain organisms of the sea to bloom. Jellyfish are actually increasing despite the increase in temperature and pollution.
yes yes yes but how do we make them smarter, and faster?
Counterargument: the big ones are much easier to notice and squash. It’s the tiny fucker that just slipped under the collar of your shirt without alerting you that you need to worry about.
I’m sure that itch you just felt was all in your head.
~Don’t kill spider friends please~
I’m with you on this. But I wonder at what point you draw the line. A spider the size of a watch? A spider the size of a car? At what point do we prefer the smaller spider?
Cats can get into houses just fine.
Also, having eight legs would make large spiders behave like giant hands, so opening windows and doors might be an easy task for them. Especially if multiple spiders cooperate…nah nope thats like being afraid a lion will hide itself under your toilet lid to jump you when you go piss in the middle of the night.
if spiders were big we would find it easier (or necessary) to keep them under control.
Now THIS is material for nightmares.
