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[–] [email protected] 100 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ladybugs are predators too and they look cute. You have no excuse.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Pish, ladybugs. Not even a true bug. They only look cute so they can let you know that they're toxic. And if you try to bother them they'll start bleeding from the knees. They're lucky most of their food is a pest.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

They only look cute so they can let you know that they're toxic.

I eat them anyways. Don't bother me none.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they also eat bedbugs and other harmful pests, they're awesome other than being fucking terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have a super old house that has these in it, along with spiders and other various creepy crawlies (nothing dangerously venomous in the area, save one spider species I’ve never seen, which only produces mild tissue necrosis).

I really don’t mind them -certainly not enough to do anything about them- and the cats like chasing them in the middle of the night, so whatever.

But man, on the rare occurrence I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and see one in the red light of the nightlight, skittering across the wall with a quickness, scares the bejesus out of me. Every. Damn. Time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do they ever crawl on you? I've found that if I ever spot a spider in my house, in the next week I'll find it somewhere on me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Literally never, no. Occasionally they hang from their silk and get close, but not super often.

But my spiders know me. They see me every day and know I’m not gunna bother them even if I see them (I even talk to them sometimes) so they give me a wide berth as well. They mostly hang out where I can’t (or won’t) reach, which works for me. Only downside is cleaning up webs a few times a year.

What kind of spiders are crawling on you? That’s pretty unusual from what I understand, unless they just blow down on their silk or whatever? Or maybe you have a lot more spiders than I do and they just hide better ;)

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Well then maYBE YOU SHOULDN'T ACTIVATE MY INSTINCTIVE FEAR RESPONSE BY MOVING SO DAMN FAST!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (3 children)

see, jumping spiders understand this. they recognize that we're effectively gods and their lives are entirely in our hands, so they damn well stand still and try to look non-threatening.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Until the jumping

The jumping

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

At least they have the decency to try to look cute! House centipedes just come right out with "You can hate me but you'll never catch me fuckers!" as they damn near burn a track into the floor

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Jumping spiders are so cute. I taught my 5 year old to call them "spider bros."

He does not know what a bro is.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is how women feel when people tell them to smile more

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is how I feel when people tell me to look happier. I have punched at least one person in the face for saying said shit.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

PSA for people with cockroach problems: Diatomaceous earth is a lifesaver! Non toxic, (also a good fertilizer for the garden) and keeps working until it gets wet.

What is it? fossils of diatoms in a chalky-powder what do you do with it? Sprinkle (dusting) into hard to reach areas (think behind & under kitchen equipment, drawers, along baseboards)

what it does is sticks to anything with an exoskeleton & dehydrates them..they die.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth

we live in a humid, costal town where they are endemic and we have ZERO of these motherfuckers in our shop & home

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I used to use this stuff all the time in my old roach infested apartment. And then I felt really bad for the cockroaches and had to stop though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Nice to know I'm not the only one. I feel bad about them too.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Also I move really fucking fast.

Deal with it

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Why are people afraid of house centipedes? They already ARE cute! It'd be one thing if they were at least somewhat willing to bite you, like some spiders, but they won't. They've got the best eyesight of any centipede, which inadvertently gives them really cute little eyes too.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago

Though i agree they are harmless, they do not meet any classical, popular definition of cute

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They have too many legs and move too quickly. It just freaks me out, man.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

My tiny lizard brain refuses to acknowledge their usefulness. Skittering and many legs? Dead!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Don't forget the painful, venomous bite!

If I find one in my house, I'm killing it. They're my irrational fear. You can't talk me out of it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

The reasoned par of my brain wholeheartedly agrees with you, and when I can convince myself to do so, I let them vibe. Unfortunately the reasoned part of my brain is powerless to stop the fight or flight response that happens when [spindly-legged creature] crosses my field of view. It simply happens.

If reasoning alone could overcome an otherwise unreasonable physiological response, then allergies wouldn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

For me it's the fact that I lived in a desertic place for most of my life and centipedes there have a very painful bite

I know house centipedes are smaller and harmless but it's difficult to re-train the brain

Edit: words

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Gosh this was hard to read. Those centipedes really did a number on you huh!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They creep me the fuck out. I know they're harmless and beneficial to have but when I turn on my bathroom light and see one on the wall above my toilet I have to get rid of it. They're literally the only bug that freaks me out, even roaches aren't that bad to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

For me, they manage to trigger the "SNAKE!" and "SPIDER!" panic responses simultaneously. The rational part of my brain likes them, the instinctual part tells me to smash it with a rock

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

I still appreciate it a lot

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've heard of a legend of a man named Joe who lived with cockroaches in his apartment.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Imagine if these things were huge. Like horse sized, or even duck sized.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Don't joke about that shit bro, last time they got that big they killed my great grandfather.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Have you ever seen starship troopers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure if these things were horse sized that the human race would never have made it out of caves.

If these things eat cockroaches they are either 1) insanely fast or 2) ambush predators, and still probably very fast.

I think I'd rather go toe to toe with a velociraptor.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I see these leggy boys in my basement all the time. Wolf spiders, leggy boys, and me are allies. I often have to save the spiders from my cats. Damn things suck at not dying to cats. Never seen my cats kill one of these tho.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Never had any cockroaches (do they even exist in Germany?) but I have those from time to time in my basement. Not sure what they eat there.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Go to the USA Southern States if you want to see cockroaches. Holy shit, man! The warm weather and humidity are like steroids to them. They get as big as a mouse, and they don't care if you have the cleanest building in the world, they're still going to invade and wake you from your sleep by crawling on your face.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cockroach

To be fair, they really originated elsewhere, but Germany certainly has cockroaches. I think Germany is probably too cold for them to be a big problem, though.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (5 children)

You mean the climate or, like, emotionally?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

They eat anything that is smaller than they are legs included. They'll eat anything from bed bugs to spiders. I even saw one chewing of a wasp at one point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

They eat other insects. All of them, not just roaches.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's 100% cockroaches in Germany, there is literally a species of cockroach called "german cockroach"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

yeah, they were first believed to have originated from germany; currently science places them as an southeast asian expatriate with a pit stop in NE africa. It's too cold for them to live outside of human settlements in germany, although i'm pretty sure that will change in the next years, and then the name fits at last.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

nature's cool as fuck attack helicopter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Fish: Oooh, dragonfly larva, I'll help myself to a nice meal

Dragonfly larva: you are mistaken about who is the meal here

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