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Given how much you liked hanging with ants, I recommend you try spiders in a garden. Look for a spider web where one is hanging, toss a small piece of debris th

Given how much you liked hanging with ants, I recommend you try spiders in a garden. Look for a spider web where one is hanging, toss a small piece of debris that breaks a little of the web, and watch in awe how they repair it.

floam 2y ago
I would hunt for my friend spider. Find an ant, throw it into the net, watch how quickly spider friend descends right to the spot and spins it into a take-out container. Really only works with live victims. If they died before I threw them on the web, the spiders usually wouldn’t recognize from the vibrations that there was food at that grid location. I did trick a spider once with a pine needle, tapping/shaking the body of the dead prey until I got lucky and the spider came. Usually this didn’t work though, tripping whatever heuristic the spiders used was tricky.
moomoo11 2y ago
Haha. Not a huge fan of spiders, if I see one in my home I’ll catch him and put him outside. Idk why but I feel really bad for critters. I’m in SF next to a park. Every morning on my walk if I see a pill bug, a worm or caterpillar, or some other critter on the side walk I’ll grab a leaf and put them back in the park. Don’t want them to get squished :( Back to spiders tho. I had jumping spiders in my last apartment. Had a really pretty patterned one in my office that would turn and face me whenever I moved. It lived in my blinds for a few weeks and then I never saw it again :( Had some pet silverfish too. I have a TON of moleskines and I’d feed them old pages. Sorry I’m probably weird for loving all these little “pests” but I find them really wonderful.
sitkack 2y ago
I rarely go through this part of the basement, I spilled about a table spoon of water on the floor and I come back 10 minutes later and a giant 7cm leg span Wolf spider was drinking from the newly formed puddle. Now I make sure there is plenty of water available in the basement.

floam 2y ago

I would hunt for my friend spider. Find an ant, throw it into the net, watch how quickly spider friend descends right to the spot and spins it into a take-out container. Really only works with live victims. If they died before I threw them on the web, the spiders usually wouldn’t recognize from the vibrations that there was food at that grid location. I did trick a spider once with a pine needle, tapping/shaking the body of the dead prey until I got lucky and the spider came. Usually this didn’t work though, tripping whatever heuristic the spiders used was tricky.

moomoo11 2y ago

Haha. Not a huge fan of spiders, if I see one in my home I’ll catch him and put him outside. Idk why but I feel really bad for critters. I’m in SF next to a park. Every morning on my walk if I see a pill bug, a worm or caterpillar, or some other critter on the side walk I’ll grab a leaf and put them back in the park. Don’t want them to get squished :( Back to spiders tho. I had jumping spiders in my last apartment. Had a really pretty patterned one in my office that would turn and face me whenever I moved. It lived in my blinds for a few weeks and then I never saw it again :( Had some pet silverfish too. I have a TON of moleskines and I’d feed them old pages. Sorry I’m probably weird for loving all these little “pests” but I find them really wonderful.

sitkack 2y ago

I rarely go through this part of the basement, I spilled about a table spoon of water on the floor and I come back 10 minutes later and a giant 7cm leg span Wolf spider was drinking from the newly formed puddle. Now I make sure there is plenty of water available in the basement.