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[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, they are spider bros. They kill brown recluses, black widows, and other things that are dangerous. Typically do not mess with humans unless seriously provoked.

[–] remon@ani.social 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I get the sentiment, but black widows (and Theridiidae in general) are quite proficient in taking out wolf spiders and other prowling spiders, not the other way around.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to need to see some videos before I can determine who is winning this debate. With heavy metal background music, though I would also accept a David Attenborough narration. With and without the wolf spider swarm.

sigh For completion sake, should probably also check out some videos of each of those spiders vs other things like scorpions, mice, mongeese, non-mon geese, snakes, etc.

[–] remon@ani.social 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I wouldn't recommend those types of videos. These are just the arthropod version of cock- or dog fighting and basically animal abuse. They also don't actually teach you much, since the scenarios don't reflect their actual behaviour in nature.

For example, almost every active hunting spider will kill a black widow if you put them in an enclosed space together. But in the real world the widows would be in her web where something like a wolfspider would get trapped long before getting close to the widow spider.