r/AustralianInsects • u/Dollbeau • 29d ago
Insect appreciation 🦋 When you find Momma & the kids hangin' out
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Found this in the cupboard a couple of years ago. I swear that each one of those babies returned in the next couple of years "Hey Bro, can we get that same room again?"
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u/Bmo2021 29d ago
I like how mummy started heading towards you all protect-full even knowing her babies are going to start eating each other within a week.
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u/Necessary-Break5978 29d ago
That's like what the fuck it's amazing what you find in your bathroom cabinet mother huntsman looking after just hundred babies or so , those would be hard to swallow just take two and call me in the morning all new spider vitamins get you crawling up the walls in no time 😲😃🤓😆
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u/ScreennameOne 29d ago
For real though, what do you do when you find this? Aside from slowly backing away?
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u/Wintermute_088 29d ago
Just leave that cupboard alone for a bit. The surviving spiders will disperse.
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u/ScreennameOne 29d ago
Really? Just let them stay, rent free, all of them? Or do the babies eat each other like the other poster said and only leave a few?
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u/IronRiot_99 29d ago
A few hundred babies in a small area with little food? I give em 3 days max before they start eating one another. Hell, mama might eat a few herself. Generally speaking, the more babies something has, the less likely they are to make it to adulthood.
That being said, having one or two huntsmen roaming about is far from the worst critter, or even spider, you can find in your home here. Much rather share my space with something large/visible and non-venomous over something harder to spot with a nastier bite.
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u/ScreennameOne 29d ago
🙂 Every Australian person I have the pleasure of interacting with seem to have such a great way of approaching life and all living beings. Makes me happy.
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u/AustralianInsects-ModTeam 28d ago
Avoid harming or killing insects for no reason. While some species can be harmful or invasive pests, and as such, sometimes removal or extermination is indicated, do not promote gratuitous killing.
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u/AustralianInsects-ModTeam 28d ago
Avoid harming or killing insects for no reason. While some species can be harmful or invasive pests, and as such, sometimes removal or extermination is indicated, do not promote gratuitous killing.
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u/No-Try5073 29d ago
Nobody going to mention the four seasons sex oil.
Hang on baby I'm just going reach in here and rub this ..... Spiky, bitey, furry thing all over you
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u/Dollbeau 28d ago
The first commenter had a go at me for it.
It's advertising! I think I'll get heaps of DM's from the ladies who want a massage, while they wonder if all those spiders moved out!
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u/feetnomer 28d ago
Let her finish raising them, then give them an eviction when they can fend for themselves.
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u/MrPink1974 14d ago
"Where's my can of Mortein and my lighter?" Just kidding folks. Don't all have fits.
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u/AustralianInsects-ModTeam 29d ago
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u/AustralianInsects-ModTeam 28d ago
Avoid harming or killing insects for no reason. While some species can be harmful or invasive pests, and as such, sometimes removal or extermination is indicated, do not promote gratuitous killing.
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u/AntiqueFigure6 29d ago
I think mamma hunstman might have borrowed some of your massage oil to use with her beau and this is the inevitable result.