I feel a bit bad when a spider spins a web on my car, a door, or some unfortunate spot where it inevitably gets destroyed.
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I feel a bit bad when a spider spins a web on my car, a door, or some unfortunate spot where it inevitably gets destroyed.
Maybe I should see if there's a not-harmful way to indicate "not here" or alternatively "live here instead" to spiders.
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purple 👊✊💨replied to Jeremy Yap last edited by
@[email protected] if you drive it daily, the spiders building webs on it are probably just using them to get from one place to another to eat the buffet you delivered to them on the windshield. they will very much jump off and scurry away within the time it takes for you to put it in gear -- the rest are content to live in the cracks between the body panels and they're probably safer there than on the ground if we consider the typical threats to a spider in the wild.
humans have unintentionally made some interesting mobile ecosystems..
(if you don't drive it daily, the best you can do is plant things that attract easy prey, to give them an incentive to go somewhere else)
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after two seasons of not driving my car, a fungus sprouted along one edge of the passenger floorboards. i was tempted to leave it, fully expecting an on-board ant colony to start harvesting it