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the-trans-dragon · 1 year ago

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Ooh I saw Genevieve again recently, with a tiiiiiny little male in her web! Unfortunately she chose to make her web on something I needed, so I transferred her behind some stuff where I won't bother her. I was skittish about Genevieve having one million babies, so I put the male in a different corner and decided that was a good compromise between "😱 do not let these spiders reproduce" and "🙄 God forbid women do anything??? Let nature take its course"

So far, I haven't seen a billion baby spiders.

I wish I'd caught a couple more cellar spiders tbh. Last year I caught like 2-3 (all males I think) and they were EXTRAORDINARY at catching every single bug that tried to come inside. I fuckin love these spiders. They make such GIGANTIC webs and then quickly abandon them to make more. They successfully prevented several ant invasions, based on the webs I cleaned up in early spring. With no intervention???? Plus, I learned I could gather unused web (with a method similar to twirling spaghetti lol) and tuck it into little cracks and crevices that were letting in bugs.

I like to imagine a timeline where they are domesticated for the purpose, and kept like pets 🥰 (probably spayed/neutered) in tanks where they spin lots of web, which is collected and used for this purpose.

0.0 I wonder if the webbing could be modified, either through purposefully breeding for certain qualities, or by inserting genes?? What if you could make the web strawberry scented. That would be so cool. Unsure if this would negatively impact spider metabolism or web integrity hehe :3

I need a name for my new cellar spider bestie. The theme is “long fancy lady’s name starting with G.” Past names were Gwendolyn and Geraldine :3

#sorenhoots #spider tw #spiders tw #arachnid tw #also i am keeping an eye on their population :3 just in case they become a concern to the local environment!#so far they seem to have a max population capacity that is low enough to prevent undesirable affects such as Oh Fuck Thats Too Many Spiders.#i caught them in a store (when i worked there) and #despite having an entire “biggest [redacted] store in the state and one of the top 5 biggest in the country!” store AND our two warehouses #they didnt ever overtake the place lol. i appreciated their webs catching *other* potentially harmful things. we got shipments worldwide and #was always kinda lowkey scared that we would be ground zero for some kind of australian-spider invasion lol.#it was fun watching their lifecycle :3 most people dont look up at the ceiling yknow? i got to watch the development of a Dome Web #(a nursery!) for a while. it was so cool to reseaech them and find descriptions matching their exact behavior! such as choosing to reside in #a communal web versus sometimes wandering elsewhere. and the way they abandon webs often to make new ones!#oh my god my manager was so distressed when she found the nursery haha. (i didnt HIDE it from her or try to protect them. they were super #visible and i knew some other people had noticed them. i guess i just assumed she knew already lol?)#have you ever seen a 5-foot-2-inch woman hold a Shitty Tiny Cheap Broom and try to swipe spiders off a ~7-8 foot ceiling? WITHOUT knocking #them down on top of her? i havent--i was gone that day lol.#i wish id have been there tbh! they always called for me when they found spiders lol. i fucking love Dealing With #Spiders. i just love capturing+relocating them! and i was the only one with Two Decades Of Experience Identifying Fiddlebacks From A $#Safe Distance (or from any distance lol) so i felt it was my duty to rescue the non-fiddlebacks.#i remmeber one specific time where it WAS a fiddlback and i went specifically to my tall blondhair blueeye white cis guy manager and said #“hey theres a fiddleback. come kill it.” and he was like “uhhh why dont YOU do it?” and i was like “...because you will be treated MUCH #better in an ER than me. because youre a tall white guy and im a short gay person.“ and he said ”fair enough“ and did it lol.

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