Just a few minutes ago this morning, Sean and Maia saw a spider sitting on the wall near where they were sitting on the couch. Maia got scared, because it was a big, nasty looking black spider. Sean told me, "Get the spider, Daddy." So, we go get the vacuum cleaner and attach the extension on it. I hand it to Sean and say, "Here you go." He turns it on, puts the extender up right by the spider, and sucks it into the vacuum cleaner! I couldn't have done better myself.
As I'm putting the vacuum cleaner away, I'm talking to the kids about spiders, and how most of them are as scared of humans as humans are scared of them. I told them that the majority of spiders will only bite a person if they are provoked. Maia then tells me, "Uh uuh... Spiders no have a mouth, Daddy."
"Yes they do, baby. That's how they eat and bite people."
"No, Daddy. Spiders no have a mouth. Duhhhh!"
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That's right people, we tell our children that spiders have mouths "so they can eat and bite people". Go ahead, pick up the phone and dial child services right now . . .
Spiders scare a lot of people (usually this is unnecessary). A few spider species have venom that is dangerous to people, but spider bites are actually pretty rare. They get blamed for a lot of skin injuries that are not actually spider bites. Most spiders have such small weak fangs that they couldn't break a person's skin, even if they wanted to.
All spiders are predators. They attack only live insects, other spiders, and other invertebrates. A few very large spider species attack small vertebrates like lizards, minnows, or frogs, but this is rare. Spiders are famous for trapping their prey in webs of sticky silk, but many of them are wandering predators who don't use silk to catch prey.
I had a pet frog until my pet spider ate it.
He was great, I kept in a mayonaise jar with a stick and a leaf (to recreate what he was use to).
Damn spider.
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