yeah I accidently killed my pet invisible spider :( his name was bob
Am I missing something here? Why is everyone talking about spiders
open it in the original instance
We are also making serial killers smarter.
I have zero issues with spiders living in my home, they just have to stay out of my sight.
If they evolve to be better at hiding, it’s a win win.
I think this every time I kill a mosquito or fruit fly but they don’t seem to be getting any faster, smarter, or quieter. Where’s Darwin when you need him to answer some questions?
There’s just so many that the relative few getting killed by swatting aren’t having an impact on their genetics.
Also we’ve been doing it for millennia. The evolutionary pressure is already there. These are just the ones with the random mutations that make them slow enough to slap.
It’s like asking why gazzel aren’t fast enough to outrun a lion.
The reclusiveness selection argument makes sense, but why intelligence? Brains are crazy metabolically expensive, and I can’t see why a smart reclusive spider would survive humans any better than a merely reclusive one.
It wouldn’t. They just added that in there for the scaries and they probably didn’t think it through much.
I have the same thoughts about hitting squirrels with my car.
Not that I do it on purpose or feel good about It, but I tell myself that at least the survivors will pass on their survivor traits to the next generation.
You’d think we’d have accidentally bred smarter deer by now
Deer kill more americans than any other animal. If anything they’re becoming more top heavy and more lethal to make drivers hesitate before hitting them. Eventually evolution will make them explode and send a cloud of shrapnel out when struck by a car.
3310 Atomic Deer
Evolution will eventually turn all deer into adorable looking mooses with nokia cell phone exoskeletons.
Hehe, that was an unintentional Nokia reference on my side.
In our house the rule is spiders can stay if they’re out the way (up high, etc). When they get too close for comfort for my wife’s tolerance limits, I pick them up and put them outside. Spiders are friends.
That almost rhymed, how about:
In our house the spiders can stay
If they’re out of the way.
If they get too close,
Then it’s time to vamo(o)seSpiderbro does an important job eating the more annoying bugs.
I only kill spiders without opposable thumbs
Whenever I see a spider in the house, I don’t kill it. I do however, pick up my cat and say, “look dude, move out along before she figures out how to get to you. She will murder your ass.”
The spider, always, leaves.
I don’t kill spiders. They are my unpaid exterminators.
They accept payment in flies.
It depends also on the size. Not the same a cute jumper on the window or…
I catch them in a glass and cover the top with a piece of cardboard then dump them outside. Spiders eat bugs. Go be free little guy!
this isnt true tho. we kill loads of them without seeing them.
i like the idea tho
I eat seven spiders every hour
wow, you must be jacked
I like smarter spiders, but not the cost of getting there.
