This spider has taken residence in a corner of one of the rooms, I’m not bothered by them but the web is getting a bit too big… can I just remove part of it to keep the size in check without causing harm to the spider?

  • Oka@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If it looks like a spider, and acts like a spider, and freaks me out like a spider, it’s close enough

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      1 year ago

      In the UK what we call a daddy longlegs has wings and flies (a crane fly I think). Obviously a very widely used name for things with a small body and a bunch of long legs haha

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          1 year ago

          Can’t tell if you are being serious or pulling my leg with that but I love it haha. I mean it’s a perfect way to distinguish because over here we have no good way to call the spiders other than ‘one of those long leg small body kinda spiders’ which is a terrible name.

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            1 year ago

            Definitely not pulling your long leg, daddy, it’s how we distinguish between the long legged things with wings and the long legged things without