• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    To the spiders in my house: yes I want you to build webs and catch critters. Yes, you can use my house. But like, can you not put it in places I typically walk? Please? I don’t want to destroy your houses but I literally can’t see them.

    • dumbass@leminal.space
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      1 month ago

      You just gotta sit down and lay out some boundaries and explain what will happen if they breach those boundaries, I’ve got a long running civil agreement with the spiders in my house, haven’t had to forcibly evict one in a very long time.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I’m taller than most people. I’m always getting a facefull of spider webs. I love spiders, though. Anything that eats mosquitoes gets a pass to mildly inconvenience me now and again.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    That’s what I like a bit less about being the first hiker to walk the trail in the morning.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Carry a 3 foot stick, and wave it up and down in front of you. That’s what I have to do on this trail I hike that doesn’t get many hikers on it. I’m pretty sure I’m the only person that hikes it, and there are golden orb weavers everywhere.

      • pedz@lemmy.ca
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        1 month ago

        Yeah, I usually start hoping I won’t need it but after hitting a few sticky webs I grab a stick and start waving it in front of me. But then I don’t go low enough or do a bad job and catch a few more with my legs or my head. Sometimes I just kind of forget and start using it as a walking stick only to be reminded why I was carrying it in the first place.

        It works, but its effectiveness varies.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Then get up at a reasonable hour, you freaking psychopath, lol. Early birds are the worst.