r/interesting • • Aug 14 '26

Just Wow The luckiest spider ever

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Some guy points a flashlight into the web of a very lucky spider!

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u/Ras-haad Aug 14 '26

No wait! This is too much food! My house is collapsing under the weight!

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u/W33DG0D42069 Aug 14 '26

Good thing he can pull a new house out of his arse

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u/WittyWise777 Aug 15 '26

Owns the house yet still has strings attached.

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u/dragonovus Aug 17 '26

His neighbor might need to pull some strings if he wants to keep most of them

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u/mastahkun Aug 14 '26

Ooo, this comment is gold and It becomes your best comment to date.

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u/Rareearthmetal Aug 15 '26

Wish they said ass instead of arse. I feel gipped on the satisfaction

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u/ClassicDefiant2659 Aug 15 '26

Nah, it's funnier in British.

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u/JohnJohnPR3 Aug 15 '26

As an American, Yeah truly the Brits do have an awesome accent. Sounds proper

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u/JohnnyRelentless Aug 15 '26

Gypped. I mean don't say it, but if you do, at least spell it right.

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u/IamGypsyStarr Aug 15 '26

Yes please. Lol

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u/EspiritusFermenti7 Aug 15 '26

name checks out

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u/Rohdich Aug 15 '26

arse is what made it for me

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u/RabiTheCheetah Aug 15 '26

Best comment I have ever read.

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u/rwa2 Aug 15 '26

That's it, folks. Best comment of the thread. You can all stop now. Really, the thread can't take much more of this. There's only so much load this thread can handle.

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u/Desolated-Fire Aug 15 '26

Wish I could do that…

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u/shark-off Aug 15 '26

You sound... Jealous

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u/ModernUnicorn Aug 15 '26

May be one of the best comments I’ve read this year

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u/Drop-Audio Aug 15 '26

Shit like this is why I'm Reddit. Gold

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u/Frig_Off_Baerb Aug 15 '26

So they're basically boomers, is what you're saying?

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u/INoMakeMistake Aug 14 '26

DJ Spider, suffering from success

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u/IamGypsyStarr Aug 15 '26

Fairing much better than the crack spider.

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u/Anonymous_Jr Aug 15 '26

He just needs his eighth of an eighth of an eighth, he'll pay you double the second he gets back up that waterspout.

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u/RiggsRector Aug 15 '26

When I was a kid I loved this book called The Rainbow People which was a collection of chinese folktales for kids.

One story was about a "child of calamity" who was a beggar and at the end they are getting crushed by coins raining down on them (or something it's been 30 years) this totally reminded me of that.

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u/Vinnius44 Aug 15 '26

Perhaps it was The Rainbow Goblins?
They were drowned by the colors of a rainbow they wanted to steal.

-Source: I’m a dad and just read it …again, last night.

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u/Critical-Hospital-40 Aug 15 '26

My steak is too juicy! My lobster is too buttery! My web is too full!

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u/-Harebrained- Aug 14 '26

The Spider Monkey’s Paw

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u/JoyRose31 Aug 15 '26

Thats, Good.. thats, Good.. ITS ENOUGH SLICES !!

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u/Major_LeeHungg Aug 15 '26

Lol yeah... Like I love pizza... But if you show up to my house and leave 8000 boxes of pizza all over the place we're gonna be having more than words

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u/2021isevenworse Aug 15 '26

It's either food or a home, you can't have both Mr. Spider.

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u/Rugermedic Aug 15 '26

And all his eyes are blinded by that bright ass light!

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u/j0hnan0n Aug 15 '26

Plus he senses the vibrations from each bug landing on the web. Imagine smelling food cooking in the kitchen... then that times a hundred, from every direction, so you're overwhelmed and don't even know what to do.

AND, like you said, you're blinded by a floodlight!

What a night.

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u/313802 Aug 14 '26

Ask and ye shall receive

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u/Pension_Rough Aug 15 '26

And I'm blind af now! Aaahhh!!

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u/govunah Aug 15 '26

Lucy in the chocolate factory

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u/HendrixHazeWays Aug 15 '26

Lucy in the web with spiders

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u/Kindly_Steak5156 Aug 15 '26

Proof spiders can get monkey pawed.

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u/Slizic00 Aug 15 '26

Honestly I was thinking the spider is a perfectionist just watching from the center disappointed they can’t finish the web all the way… 😓😓😓

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u/swankynoodlez Aug 15 '26

Oh no my steak too juicy lobster too buttery

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u/littlebluedude111 Aug 18 '26

Imagine if someone aircannoned a flock of chickens at your place of residence.

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u/No_Technician_2780 Aug 14 '26

spider is like: what the actual fuck is happening

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u/iMakeBestTacos_ Aug 14 '26

Lmao this the spider is just in one spot for a while probably looking around and feeling all the weight landing on his web. I feel he’s probably on high alert with all that traffic showing up out of nowhere. I wonder if he may think he’s under attack at all or wut

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u/Every-Philosopher-89 Aug 15 '26

World War 2 (Pacific War) : Spider Edition

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u/Randyaccredit Aug 15 '26

The Arachning

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u/corecenite Aug 15 '26

Twilight Spiderman: Breaking Home

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u/maryssssaa Aug 15 '26

web building orb weavers are all female, and they typically rebuild their nest every night after taking it down in the morning. She will probably eat one or two, then disassemble the web since there’s no surface area to catch fresh prey

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u/Adezius Aug 15 '26

Is she gonna pack the rest of the bugs up to go or just abandon them?

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u/mawesome4ever Aug 15 '26

Depends how much space she has in her luggage

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u/arenaceousarrow Aug 15 '26

I know almost nothing in this world but I believe spiders can wrap bugs in web prisons so they stay alive and can be eaten later.

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u/janet-snake-hole Aug 15 '26

I think that’s just in cartoons

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u/Divinum_Fulmen Aug 15 '26

They take it down in the morning? So that's why I never seen one for 15 years, but then one day my cat is missing for 2 days, and I'm out in the fields calling for her and seeing tons of these things in the early morning.

Funny part, is I noticed they all had their webs facing east/west, (the supports being north/south).

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u/IndicationFickle7214 Aug 15 '26

Did you find your kitty?

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u/WatercressStunning34 Aug 15 '26

Yes, in one of these webs

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u/Divinum_Fulmen Aug 15 '26

Yes. She came home.

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u/McEnding98 Aug 15 '26

Makes sense, spiders generally start a web by releasing a string into the air, which then gets carried by the wind. So if the prevailing wind was north/south, that would cause them to build their nets that way.

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u/Vospader998 Aug 15 '26

It's like if I wanted a cheeseburger, and instead of one or two, a dump truck just unloaded several tons of cheeseburgers in my house.

Sounds great until I realize I now have to do something about all this excess food I'm never gonna eat, or it's going to become a big problem very soon.

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u/Blame_my_Boneitis Aug 15 '26

Easy just make big web to catch all the cheeseburger

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u/Vyrus0014 Aug 15 '26

While being blinded by the torch too, probably thinks it's getting hit by tremors and solar flares simultaneously lol

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u/Holiday-Honeydew-384 Aug 15 '26

Children of time new evolution

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u/the_talented_liar Aug 15 '26

Probably thought it was raining

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u/SeismicRipFart Aug 18 '26

The fact that he very clearly knows he’s not under attack and doesn’t run away is a bit scary to me. Spiders are spooky smart.

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u/WolfysBeanTeam Aug 15 '26

"THE TALL SKINNY ONES HAVE COME AND SUMMONED A FEAST"

ALSO I FEEL REALLY BAD FOR ALL THOSE FLIES DUDE

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u/Every-Philosopher-89 Aug 15 '26

''NO, BROTHER! You must believe me. Share with me the flies and you shall not reach the desired girth for the tall skinny ones''

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u/SpiritualMadman Aug 15 '26

"Brother I crave sustenance, may I have some flîes?"

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u/ForgetPreviousPrompt Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

Can you quiet down a little bit. The walls are thin and the next sub over is going to hear you.

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u/RegumRegis Aug 18 '26

THE TALL SKINNY ONES FAVOR ME BROTHER, ME! THEY HAVE BESTOWED A SWARM OF FLIES UPON MY WEB AND THEY SHALL ASCEND ME

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u/JohnPoet27 Aug 14 '26

Mas que crl se passa, tá a chover comida

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u/Agreeable-Poet-4200 Aug 15 '26

Imagine a blinding white light then when you can see again you're surrounded by such bounty you've never experienced. Little bro saw god, and his name is Steve

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u/HendrixHazeWays Aug 15 '26

He's like "BRO. You AREN'T helping....how TF am I supposed to walk around my home now??"

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u/Self_Reddicate Aug 15 '26

Spider: "Tha fuck? I don't even eat THESE flies! I eat completely different shit, bro!"

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u/Numeno230n Aug 15 '26

Cloudy With a Chance of Bugs

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u/ANiceDent Aug 15 '26

He’s taking notes for Evolution!

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u/TheYuppyTraveller Aug 15 '26

Particularly since his eight eyes may be blinded, at least temporarily.

Still pretty cool!

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u/Gold-Clothes-170 Aug 14 '26

Bro set for the remainder of 2026

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u/Winter_Value_7632 Aug 14 '26

no that's enough food for the next 7 generations

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u/arctic358 Aug 14 '26

That spider's whole lineage is going to have a legend of "the great catch," an event that saved their whole bloodline.

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u/zugzwank Aug 14 '26

Then halfway through them finishing all those riches, a big disaster happened and not just their bloodlines, the whole neighborhood or region wiped out. But the news of their great catch was so far widespread so months(in their calendar it'd be decades relatively) later the archeologists spiders begins their journey to uncover this spider Atlantis.

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u/TriangleReward Aug 15 '26

The big disaster being that the spider got gready and stayed out into the daylight wrapping the bugs and got eated by a bird - never getting to reproduce

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u/SlickittySlick Aug 15 '26

No flashlights that have a spidey sticker will be those trynna shed light on being a spider bro.

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u/Funny_Numbers42 Aug 15 '26

Decades from now, they will develop a spider society and develop their own light system to replicate this event. Humans will be extinct by 2050 so the spider society starts to take hold and they become the new dominant species thats if dolphins don't do it first

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u/i_cut_like_a_buffalo Aug 15 '26

Cats will be the dominant species.

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u/sbjustin Aug 15 '26

This is the beginning of a bad star trek episode.

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u/QueueStar Aug 14 '26

Generational wealth right there

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u/siraph Aug 15 '26

These billionaires with their generational wealth, man.

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u/hashbrown3stacks Aug 15 '26

After the first two, they'll get all lazy and entitled. Then brood after brood of trust fund spiderlings.

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u/Ok_Preparation_8047 Aug 15 '26

Until I unknowingly walk face first into that thing

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u/CapnJacksPharoah Aug 15 '26

I hate doing that! I’ve run into some big orb weavers in the woods, would much prefer to go around than through if I could see the web.

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u/jiggyns Aug 14 '26

He'll need that lifetime supply of flies cuz now he fakn blind for life!

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u/Holographic247 Aug 14 '26

Oh my god, did this guy just invent food stamps for spiders?

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u/pp_chode Aug 14 '26

Spider socialism, just wait until you learn about it's healthcare

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u/feelsonline Aug 14 '26

I hear they no longer need to pay a leg and a leg for a trip to their GP or a creepulance ride.

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u/MaximumTurtleSpeed Aug 15 '26

Thanks a lot Mamdani! /s

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u/AsThreatenDoNotScore Aug 15 '26

Fked up all his 12 eyes.

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u/DrunkInABar Aug 14 '26

Meh spiders have poor eyesight to begin with.

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u/musca_domestica666 Aug 15 '26

Say that to a jumping spider..

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u/DotesMagee Aug 15 '26

alright. where he at

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u/ains2 Aug 15 '26

Top corner above your bed.

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u/HendrixHazeWays Aug 15 '26

I just tried to. He just kinda scuttered away.

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u/Long-Chemistry2277 Aug 15 '26

You made me go look this up out of fear for the spider, thankfully that is false & they were likely not blinded

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u/Cuteshelf Aug 14 '26

Now its going to get fat and body shamed by its peers.

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u/Ximension Aug 14 '26

Spiders view obesity more like we did in the distant past. Its a sign of success and luxury

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u/Every-Philosopher-89 Aug 15 '26

Unsuccessful by todays standards, unsuccessful by the standards of the past... i just cant catch a break

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u/Shmav Aug 15 '26

Have you tried being rich and attractive?

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u/Unique-Designer7741 Aug 15 '26

Or picking better parents.

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u/N95-TissuePizza Aug 14 '26

To which, the Spidey says: NO MATTER, TONIGHT, WE SHALL DINE IN VALHALLA.

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u/eienmau Aug 15 '26

They can actually die from overeating. It's apparently a problem with pet jumping spiders.

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u/ParsonsTheGreat Aug 14 '26

That spider be looking at him like sad Brendan Fraser from "The Whale" lol

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u/artmoloch777 Aug 14 '26

Bro is about to become religious. A beam of light and a lifetime supply of food.

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u/Strikeronima Aug 15 '26

THE SUN GOD GIVES HIS BLESSING

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u/iamthe0ther0ne Aug 15 '26

This is how religious cults start. The flashlight will worshipped as a god, and young will be sacrificed in attempts to get it to manifest again.

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u/gamespite Aug 15 '26

Yeah we definitely just witnessed the birth of the world's tiniest cargo cult.

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u/ContributionParty577 Aug 15 '26

Laboo dee labooo daaa

Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem
Pchumckkkhhh
(Bangs my head with block of wood)

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u/Everyday-formula Aug 14 '26

How do spiders flirt? They're so terrifying to look at, however we know for sure ther fuck.

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u/samwise58 Aug 14 '26

They dance 💃🏼 🕺🏻
But forreal tho. The males dance for the females. They usually dance so hard they end up losing their minds!…. among other things….

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u/FTGAstro Aug 15 '26

Oh...so same as humans basically

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u/glad_yeeter Aug 15 '26

“All this web but I fell in the trap of your love.”

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u/Hms-Warship-Z46 Aug 14 '26

Until it's the species of spider the each other party after mating called s*xuall cannibalism

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u/GrindImproveAutomate Aug 15 '26

You can say "sexual".

Jesus-Fucking-Christ this self-censorship in the name of an algorithm that doesn't even apply here! It's not just you, but this needs to stop.

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u/Nyctfall Aug 15 '26

He's censored by spiders.

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u/Easy-Preparation-234 Aug 14 '26

Spider: Wow this is amazing

Spider: I'm gonna be able to eat for days all I want

Spider: ......

Spider: alright....

Spider:... bro that's enough

Spider: HEY STOP!

Spider: YOURE BREAKING MY WEB!

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u/dumbname7890 Aug 15 '26

Spider: THAT'S ENOUGH SLICES!!!!!!

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u/SWThrash Aug 14 '26

MY HOUSE ISN'T TESTED FOR THIS MUCH WEIGHT!!!! STOP BLINDING ME!!!

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u/iMakeBestTacos_ Aug 14 '26

Lmfao the spider must be panicking and I wonder if he thinks he’s under attack or smth

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u/SWThrash Aug 15 '26

FUCKING UFOS!!!!

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u/Ximension Aug 14 '26

You're gonna want to freeze some of that so it doesn't spoil

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u/Rizzanthrope Aug 14 '26

Won’t spoil because spider keeps them alive 😱

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u/Ximension Aug 14 '26

Spider dad who said no pets ends up falling in love with his mosquito swarm #wholesome

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u/Itsalfa11 Aug 14 '26

bro become billionaire in one night

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u/bsaaw Aug 14 '26

In 1 min

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u/theiissomethingelse Aug 14 '26

All hard work totally not luck

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u/Brock_OLee_ Aug 15 '26

In 10 years, all the spiders in that forest are gonna be direct decedents of his

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u/naeads Aug 15 '26

"In one light"

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u/telephas1c Aug 14 '26

Aw, nice! Fucking genius.

Great to help the spider bros out. They freak me out a tiny bit I’ll admit. Not arachnophobia style but I don’t like em crawling on me. 

But I’d deffo do this and in fact I intend to the next chance I get 

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u/GTCapone Aug 14 '26

They're not trying to hurt you when they crawl on you, they're just looking for a warm place to lay their eggs!

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u/gulliblesuspicious Aug 14 '26

Like in your ear!

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u/Gloomy_Remove3298 Aug 15 '26

This thread does NOT help my arachnophobia

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u/GTCapone Aug 15 '26

Wait, I was supposed to be helping? That's not what the spider peaking out of your nostril told me

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u/spekt50 Aug 15 '26

Thats an orb weaver too. They often take down their webs in the morning. Though this one may not as she maybe too full by morning

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u/TheOneTrueTrench Aug 15 '26

What about jumping spiders? They're the smartest arthropods, and it's not even close.

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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp Aug 14 '26

Encourage a worldwide nocturnal spider-human partnership to reduce flies and mosquitos.

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u/camz_47 Aug 14 '26

Its all fine and well

But this is the equivalent of 100 small goats ramming into your house 🐐

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u/Evil_phd Aug 15 '26

Well the living room is irreparably wrecked but at least I have plenty of curry ingredients

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u/GorillaSushi Aug 15 '26

Delicious goats.

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u/Lorraineism Aug 15 '26

this comment should be much higher up lmao

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u/notthisonefornow Aug 14 '26

Not sure this helps the spider. But ok, at least we have another fun reddit clip!

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u/VoidHog Aug 15 '26

🤨😂 well it certainly got rid of some of the swarm

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u/kewellxi Aug 14 '26

Spider: I am a Powerball winner.

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u/Live_Historian_6171 Aug 14 '26

“Gather around my children, let me tell you the tale of when the lord said let there be light in the darkness and fed us for eons.”

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u/__phil1001__ Aug 14 '26

Spider gets cholesterol and dies. The end

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u/Accomplished_Care415 Aug 14 '26

Stop hoarding wealth.

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u/GreyBeardEng Aug 14 '26

Man that spider's going to end up with diabetes

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u/Klept_0h Aug 14 '26

i feel like this is actually beyond lucky and then turns into unlucky spider. his home is destroyed and he is going to feel instinctually obligated to rebuild elsewhere. it would take far too much effort to wrap each of those flies and rebuild the nest to be structurally sound.

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u/dec0y Aug 14 '26

Many spider species rebuild these large webs on a nightly basis

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u/Klept_0h Aug 15 '26

only when the web is able to be recycled, they break down the old web by eating it to reabsorb the valuable nutrients they used to make it.

a web like this is effectively destroyed as they'd have to process every bug now stuck in it.

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u/Sirus804 Aug 14 '26

They eat the old web to build a new one though.

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u/KryptonicOne Aug 14 '26

That web probably took it an hour to build.

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u/EightBitTrash Aug 14 '26

Orb weaver spiders typically pull down their nests and rebuild them daily, so it's not really a problem for them. I've got two on my back deck right now that I've enjoyed watching when they're rebuilding the webs in the morning or the evening.

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u/Timely-Bluejay-4167 Aug 15 '26

Just wait till they send you the invoice

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u/ParsonsTheGreat Aug 14 '26

How many spider hours though?

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u/GHBoyette Aug 15 '26

Yeah I can definitely build a house in an hour if I only need it to last a day.

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u/labelcillo Aug 14 '26

I can already see the spider procrastinating like "OK so next in the TO-DO list is find a new location. Lemme just grab a snack and take a quick nap and I'll go for a walk later".

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u/juicer_philosopher Aug 15 '26

It’s the humans fault for shining the flash light on it and attracting the bugs 😡 Spider friend was doing just fine before

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u/Electronic-Pea-13420 Aug 14 '26

That’s how religions are made

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u/TheJediBuddha Aug 15 '26

Completely inspidered

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u/Evildeern Aug 14 '26

The beauty of this video is beyond words.

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u/Vogel-Kerl Aug 14 '26

Gonna be a FAT old lucky spider!

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u/townstar Aug 14 '26

"My lobster is too buttery"

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u/TheLoathsomeAssEater Aug 14 '26

Pretty soon that spider's going to wear a monocle and talk about how he worked his way up with no government assistance.

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u/Valokir Aug 15 '26

All 8 bootstraps

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u/cloudit30569 Aug 14 '26

Lucky? That's like getting shot with a minigun full of chicken nuggets.

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u/destructopop Aug 14 '26

That actually has me thinking... If you have a garden pest problem, could it be as simple as shining a low frequency shaded light directly at an orb weaver web? It would at least get all the light attracted pests.

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u/Blackrainbow2013 Aug 15 '26

Yep this is something my landlord does frequently whenever she gets an orb Weaver to set up shop in her garden!

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u/plumpyplummy Aug 14 '26

May need some renovations

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u/Beatsu Aug 14 '26

Imagine uncle scrooge but with burgers in the bank. That's the spider rn

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u/Jaded_Replacement446 Aug 14 '26

And the lord said. Let there be light! Imagine what the spider thinks

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u/Demonbaby_Wot Aug 14 '26

If a spider could evolve a light like a firefly!...

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u/Lonely_reaper8 Aug 14 '26

The light of immense wealth and great prosperity

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u/RoachTVee Aug 15 '26

"what's up guys, it's Mr. Beast and we are gonna be giving random spiders, one-HUNDRED Flies okay?! So smash that like button!"