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[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is why I love jumping spiders.

I’d be terrified of a huntsmen spider, but I love jumping spiders i leave them be whenever I see them, knowing that they will snack on all the fruit flies, moths, and mosquitoes that make it into my house.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

jumping spiders are also a about the perfect size for a spider: small enough that it doesn't elicit a deep primal horror inside me, large enough to feast on other gross bugs.
add to that their intelligence and not spinning webs, and hell yeah spiderbro.

them and proper orbweavers (who spin their web and straight up stay there forever if they keep finding food in their web, you can trivially easily keep them as pets by putting them on a little U shaped contraption and putting a bug in their web every now and then) are so compatible with humans that i hope we borderline domesticate them.

[–] Shhalahr@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

I love jumpers because they're cute. The anime sized front facing eyes and movements that make them look so damn curious all the time—I just can't get over those.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My wife is arachnophobic, but likes jumping spiders. Most of the phobia seems to be in the legs, since they have such stumpy ones.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

can confirm, anything with long thin legs makes me want to cry profusely, but if the legs are short and wide then i'll at worst be a bit grossed out.