this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
157 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13535 readers
57 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That fucker on the right is called a "house centipede" and they take years to get to that pictured size. It's a really terrible experience to be using the bathroom and glancing over at the wall and seeing a 2-3" centipede skittering around. They're not very fast, so they're easy enough to kill, but ugh.
laughs in Australian tropics
Huntsman spiders are one of the fastest spiders on Earth, grow to the size of a human hand and are as common where I live as a house spider.
Our roaches are the size of mice too
They're quite cute though and keep the cockroaches out.
Whom amongst us has not heard the distinct sound of a spider large enough to make a noise as it scurries along a hardwood floor?
Yeah but at least you don't have bears
This mf's about to get murked by a dropbear.
You're not gonna find a bear in your house.
Howww is this an emoji I swear we have the perfect emoji for everything
Lol I think this was created in response to brigading allgations like this other emote:
If you're rural enough and have a pet door that can change pretty quick.
Is Grafton a joke to you?
It's not just about how likely I am to encounter an animal, it's also about how fucked I would be
I'd rather deal with a brown bear than most of what Australia has to offer and a grizzly more than some of what Australia has to offer. Polar bears are S tier nope but they're far. Bears aren't even the scariest animals in North America, fucking moose are.
I'd rather a moose than a griz
This is true
House centipedes are little assholes though, they'll crawl up to you while you're sleeping and bite you a bunch to see if anything happens, then wander off, leaving a string of painful itchy welts.
That's obviously not as dangerous as the average Australian spider, but I have to assume none of those spiders are quite so eager, because otherwise the island would be uninhabitable.
Oh that sounds awful actually. No wonder people hate house centipedes
They’re just little guys, they’re harmless to you.
Just scoop it into a cup with a paper towel as a lid and release it outside.
They are disgusting and vile and they should all be destroyed
They are disgusting and vile and they should all be loved and cherished for killing all the actually terrible things in your home.
This tbh
the adult ones in my house are huge, like over an inch long, they look scary, but yeah they are harmless.
Bad news: spiders and centipedes that live in your house are the latest of generations that have only ever lived in your house. Putting them outside is basically killing them
This is only sorta-kinda true. Depending on your house and the species in question, a lot of spiders and insects you might find in it have just come in from the outside, making their way under door jams or all sorts of not completely sealed cracks and crevices. I often (relatively speaking) capture and toss out wetas in my place that I know just squeezed in from outside. It also doesn't really matter how many generations they've been there as long as it hasn't been so many that they've actually evolved to habitate in your house specifically. What matters in that case is the individual which may have been set up in such a way in your house that yeah, chucking it outside will be a death sentence. But that's really variable depending on the species in question, the conditions outside, where you end up putting it outside (example: out in the open where it will immediately get got by a predator, or in the kind of underbrush it's naturally suited for anyway), and all sorts of other things.
You're welcome to come over and do that
They are beautiful, I never bother em. My cat likes tearing off each of their legs very slowly though
They're pretty fast imo