Not sure if I should be more concerned that I have snakes around, or more concerned that I have spiders who are capable of hunting them and dragging them up into my garage roller doors. I have also found a scorpions almost a meter up from the ground in their webbing

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    9 months ago

    Did you save a bunch of baby spiders a few years ago? Because it sounds like you’ve got an army of defence spiders protecting you from bitey stingy stuff.

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    Steatoda spp. Can kill snakes, are found all around the globe and harmless to humans.

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    … scorpions caught and eaten in webs? Never seen that before (and we have tiny scorpions that kinda like walls sometimes).

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        He wasn’t drug up there. He climbed up there and got himself stuck. Would have been the same for the Lil snek. I find a poor little baby ring neck snake like that every once in a while.

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            Why the hell have you not burnt the house down yet?! O want to do that overtime i see a spider and im in the UK. Ours cant do shit except run a little quick…ugly creepy fucks!

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        Yeah, I img searched it as well. Poor scorp bro turned into a juice pack.

        They could have teamed up & eat those neighbors you don’t care for.

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      Yeah, we have black widows, brown widows, funnel webs, orb spiders, rain spiders (palystes) and whatever the hell this ugly thing is:

      I feel like the previous owner should’ve had a legal obligation to report this on the conditions of sale document…

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    Are you sure they’re getting dragged up by something, rather than ending up there on their own and then getting stuck/trapped/bitten and dying?

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      I think spiders are pretty good engineers with their webs and have ways of using their webs to lift things that would surprise you.

      Like attach some webs to the thing you want to lift and anchor them to several places that are close, then wrap another web around those webs and pull that wrap tight and you reduce the length of the webs holding the thing, so it lifts up. Then attach new webs to your main web at several places and wind another web around those ones to pinch them together. Repeat until the thing is as high as you want to get it.

      And that’s assuming they don’t set up multiple pulley-like systems to lift heavy things like we do.

      Apparently they do though: https://www.livescience.com/spiders-hoist-prey-with-pulleys.html

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      Mostly. I have a split panel garage door that I figure would be pretty difficult for a snake to climb up. Same with the Scorpion which was about a meter up a window pane, and I figure scorpions don’t really climb glass.

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        That’s fair, though I still think you’d be surprised at where these kinds of creatures can get in to… Either way - I would not be messing with those spiders lol