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I managed not to hurt it as I brushed it off.
Spiders are cool and all but I do have a personal rule of if it enters a certain radius around me, it is gonna fucking die.
I figure outside is their territory, and try to leave them be. I have to get rid of the black widows in my back yard because my dogs are dumb and will try to eat then, but otherwise leave them alone.
Not quite as harsh but the area is extended: If I see a spider in my room around my desk, it gets thrown out into the garden. I have no problem knowing there is a spider in my room but I don't want to have to consider the possibility of it creeping up my body unwarned
That is a perfectly horrible spider. It’s got the exact proportions that are just the fuckin worst. Worst size too.
Props on not panicking though, and being able to get it off the shirt without injuring it.
I’ve gotten better with spiders but to look one down and see it scrambling up my chest I don’t know if I’d be able keep control.
Yeah, just a garden spider - an orb weaver, I think - but kind of nightmare fuel.
My scream was internal
I can guarantee you mine would have been, high, loud and extremely external.
I think the expression, I would've woken the dead, would fit.
Hard to tell without a good look at the abdomen, but I think this is a barn spider. The bite isn't bad for humans. They are very creepy cute when resting, they fold their legs up and become a kind of diamond shape.
Edit: It looks like both Neoscona crucifera and Araneus cavaticus are commonly called barn spiders. I linked to the first but the second is the namesake.
That's Neoscona crucifera, similar but not a barn spider.
It looks like both Neoscona crucifera and Araneus cavaticus are called barn spiders, though the latter is the namesake. Thanks for the specifics, I learned something new and will update my comment :D
Thanks, too. I didn't realise Neoscona was also refered to as barn spider. I really should have known that.
I basically called you out for using the "wrong" common name, though the pictures were of the right spiders. Sorry about that.
No need to apologize at all! I'm a novice spider lover so I'm constantly learning. I think Neoscona can be called a barn spider but it's not THE barn spider. Confusing but nice to know.
Ok yeah that’s kinda cute, from a safe distance, like through my phone
The website you linked is dead
Thanks, I updated it. Maybe it loads now?
I could access the picture through my client. Maybe client specific dead?
@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world @pics@lemmy.world That close my scream wouldn’t have been internal. Pretty chill dealing with arachnids and insects (apart from white tails which get the boot) but that’s in my gedditoffme zone so props.
I'm sure I didn't look chill!
Awh, she thinks you're warm and cosy
Wow. That is quite the large spider.
How does anyone accidentally get this on themselves?
They found a nice spot
I had just come back from walking the dogs. I'm going to guess a walker through a web, maybe lower down and it had been crawling up?
Yep, this is my call to block this sublemmy or whatever they are called. Too many spiders and creepy shit.
They're called communities.
