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.
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
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.
Spiderbro does an important job eating the more annoying bugs.
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)se
I only kill spiders without opposable thumbs
It depends also on the size. Not the same a cute jumper on the window or…
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.
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!
I like smarter spiders, but not the cost of getting there.
Any flies that fly into my house are given a chance to leave. If I can herd them out the window, they get to live and make lots of new baby flies.
On the other hand, their chances of getting a close up view of the fly swatter increase exponentially with every minute they spend refusing to leave and ignoring the fact that I’m literally showing them the exit.
This is why you shouldn’t kill rattlesnakes. If we kill the rattlesnakes that make themselves known, over time they adapt to not rattle before striking.
this isnt true tho. we kill loads of them without seeing them.
i like the idea tho
I eat seven spiders every hour
If I never know that the spider is there then we shall both live a peaceful life.
fine by me. as long as i don’t see them, they don’t exist.
And cockroaches, too. They’ll haul ass and scurry away every time. They know.
