What do spiders think about?
I've got a little spider who's taken up lodgings in my bathroom. It's about the size of a 50p piece (or about a quarter if you're american). It (not quite sure on the gender) sits in the corner on its web all night. By day, it's nowhere to be seen. When I go in the bathroom in the night, it usually dashes into it's little hole when I get near it. Now, I don't know much about spiders, but when it runs into it's hole, I presume it's worried that I am a predator, but how does it know when it's safe to come out again? This got me thinking about how little I know about spiders:
Do I scare the bejesus out of it when it sees me?
Does it's heart race? (Do they even have hearts?)
Does it sleep during the day?
Do they breathe?
Strange what you think about sometimes huh!?
Do I scare the bejesus out of it when it sees me?
Does it's heart race? (Do they even have hearts?)
Does it sleep during the day?
Do they breathe?
Strange what you think about sometimes huh!?
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Originally posted by Indecisive PC user
I've got a little spider who's taken up lodgings in my bathroom. It's about the size of a 50p piece (or about a quarter if you're american). It (not quite sure on the gender) sits in the corner on its web all night. By day, it's nowhere to be seen. When I go in the bathroom in the night, it usually dashes into it's little hole when I get near it. Now, I don't know much about spiders, but when it runs into it's hole, I presume it's worried that I am a predator, but how does it know when it's safe to come out again? This got me thinking about how little I know about spiders:
Do I scare the bejesus out of it when it sees me?
Does it's heart race? (Do they even have hearts?)
Does it sleep during the day?
Do they breathe?
Strange what you think about sometimes huh!?
Yes they have hearts.
Yes they rest (day/night depending on the breed).
Yes they breath.
Do you scare it? Who knows. At the very least the sight of you sets off some survival instinct.
Here, http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spider...spiderinfo.htm have fun.
Originally posted by thuh Freak
pass the doob this way, man.
Whoa I see hands... Whoa those are my hands. Wow man I have big hands. I could crush the world with these hands... HEY, do we have any White Castle burgers?
Originally posted by Indecisive PC user
Do I scare the bejesus out of it when it sees me?
Probably not.
Does it's heart race? (Do they even have hearts?)
I believe they have crude aortic arches, and I'd imagine they be circulating spider juices faster.
Does it sleep during the day?
That probably depends social class.
Do they breathe?
Not after I squish them.
Originally posted by faust9
Whoa I see hands... Whoa those are my hands. Wow man I have big hands. I could crush the world with these hands... HEY, do we have any White Castle burgers?
yeah, they call them "fingers", but i've never seen them "fing." Oh, wait, there they go. cool.
...and quit stinking up its front yard!
Originally posted by faust9
Whoa I see hands... Whoa those are my hands. Wow man I have big hands. I could crush the world with these hands... HEY, do we have any White Castle burgers?
They call them Fingers, but I never see them fing
oh..
wait.
there they go!
Originally posted by mattjohndrow
yeah, they call them "fingers", but i've never seen them "fing." Oh, wait, there they go. cool.
I hate you.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
They call them Fingers, but I never see them fing
oh..
wait.
there they go!
It's like Deja Vu all over again.
Originally posted by faust9
It's like Deja Vu all over again.
Yeah, it isn't even THAT funny.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
I hate you.
hehe, sorry bro.
note to self: when bread becomes toast, it cannot turn back into bread
Originally posted by mattjohndrow
hehe, sorry bro.
note to self: when bread becomes toast, it cannot turn back into bread
Indeed.
Unfortunately, the 3 it's lost are all on the same side. So it seems to spend a lot of time walking around in circles.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
I hate you.
I don't pretend to know what it thinks, but it is in NO way afraid of me.
I watch it kill insects and work on its web all the time, and it pays no attention. But I touched the web once and it took a VERY defensive posture. It's hard to explain, but its body language was just "don't do that again, bitch."
On the rare occasion it wanders from the web it saunters around like it owns the place-no stealth at all, just a straight line from a to b.
It scared me by crawling across my iMac screen late one night. I was in Word-its silhouette looked really cool after I caught my breath, though.
J
Most people are freaked out by spiders. I think it's partly because they move so fast - we imagine them running right up our body, up to our face or something.
I try to tolerate their presence when possible. They're just leading the life and doing the things they were made to do.
I think what a miracle they really are, how amazing their webs are, what they do from 'instinct' (or whatever you want to call it). I think of how they control the insect population, and how a hundred Nobel prize winners wouldn't be able to create a spider if they worked for half a century with unlimited resources. Spiders might be pretty creepy, but they're pretty special too.
You definitely should name your spider.
Carol
Originally posted by Carol A
Most people are freaked out by spiders. I think it's partly because they move so fast - we imagine them running right up our body, up to our face or something.
That and the whole 8 eyes thing, that really gets to me.
Originally posted by crazychester
So it seems to spend a lot of time walking around in circles.
Maybe it's a male spider and it doesn't want to ask for directions.
Originally posted by Carol A
Most people are freaked out by spiders. I think it's partly because they move so fast - we imagine them running right up our body, up to our face or something.
It might just be me, bu spiders also seem to crawl toward us more often than other bugs.