Plot twist: the moths actually hate the taste of wool, they're just making sure you won't have any warm clothes so the heating stays on, just the way they like it
The only time I have issue with my 8 legged housemates is when they string a web from the ceiling and dangle above or rather near to my face. You can roam free everywhere else but that's just creepy
Mine are allowed to live anywhere but the bedroom. I've had one too many fall on my face above my bed. Currently have one living in my bathroom who is doing a good job eating ants
I grew up in the Philippines, and I was maybe 12 or 13 when I realized how helpful spiders are. We had a larger spider, maybe the size of my hand, living in our showers for the longest time. Freaked you out the first time you saw it, but it honestly just sat there and killed cockroaches. Must have made friends with the geckos that would hang out behind picture frames above the TV. These two beautiful "pets" probably kept my whole family from contracting lots of mosquito-borne diseases growing up. And chances are the 3-foot-long lizard that lived behind the door in the kitchen kept us from contracting some type of rat plague.
I had a pet spider that escaped into my parents' basement years ago. She kept the basement nearly bug free for many years. And when my dad was in Okinawa he had a wild lizard who he let live inside and run around on the walls. Apparently the lizard kept a lot of the bugs out of his home, too. I purposely let wolf spiders live in my home still. Though, my cats will catch anything they see, including the spiders. The cats keep my home pretty bug free, too.
The common spider I leave alone. They pay rent by killing other insects and I respect this symbiosis we have. Spider bros are welcome here (within reason).
Spiders are always welcome until the TV gets a littler brighter and I see a tennis ball sized outline with 8 legs on the ceiling. Then its chancla time
It depends on the spider. I'll put wolf spiders outside, but I leave wall spiders and cobweb spiders alone. Sometimes I'll relocate unknown spiders to the garage.
Glad to learn that my stubborn insistence on leaving spiders alone is justified. I tell my kids (and the occasional guest who finds a spider) "I have no quarrel with spiders. As long as they stay off me, they are welcome to stay."
I have these little black spiders that are always around in the house. Its weird because the same spiders have been living for ...decades.under the latch to my barn. I don't mess with them until they start crawling across the ceiling over my head. The thought of them dropping down on me is a bridge too far. Usually, I will just knock them off the ceiling with a magazine and and fling them out the door. I always feel bad about it. I tell them: Quit walking on the ceiling over me and I will ignore you! I don't think they speak English very well.
O F, they poop all over the place. Where I have particularly prosperous spiders, there are hard to clean dots of spider doo found below. I don’t kill them, but I do evict them. I figure, even if they do die outside, at least something might be able to eat them.
I can honestly say that I've encountered a rice weevil for the first time just a few months ago. That is even more impressive considering that I am a chef.
3:36 Hey, I see both of those in my garden! Especially the little sparrows, but sometimes we see the bigger starlings too, which are so pretty with the little white star-like dots. And we get a whole load of sparrows in our rosebush throughout most of the day; it's really very lovely. We get other birds too, like pigeons, a pair of blackbirds, some bluetits, a robin, and some occasional dunnocks. One day I even saw a couple of rooks (I think... large corvids anyway) fighting over the bird food I put out, but they never came back unfortunately. I live in England by the way.
why can't we actually domesticate house spiders tho? like, set up spots that are extra-conducive for their webs, and actually keeps them safe from most of our own human activity?
The ones in my house seem partial to living in the windows in dining room. There's a big one living in a crack in the wood by a window. I named that one Phil. Given what is stuck in Phil's web, I think the li'l' dude deserves some credit for making trouble for this summer's ant infestation by virtue of frequently being really damn hungry. His neighbor under the windowsill is a big momma spider that I named Mary. Also all her babies spread around the dining room. The babies also mostly catch ants. Mary seems to be a bit dim, given that I've seen her fall out of her own web twice while trying to repair it, but somehow she caught a small cockroach last week. Good for Mary, I'd rather have a slightly-dense spider around the house than a skittering cockroach. I didn't used to like spiders very much, but then I started watching them more closely and realized that they have their own little personalities and are as interesting and as uniquely themself as any dwarf carp (those silver-color ones they sell alongside baby koi fish in pet shops. I used to have one that my brother had named Dollar Bill 'cuz we saved a dollar off the 3-dollar price of the fish because the pet shop apparently needed space for a new shipment of yellow koi coming in a few days.) in a home fishpond. Also, the spider probably won't get stolen by a racer snake (RIP Dollar Bill). At least I should hope not, if you've got a spider hanging out in your house big enough to attract a 5-and-a-half-foot-long snake, you've got other problems, namely that you live in Australia, so catching the snake and putting it someplace that isn't your house is probably above your pay grade.
I never kill spiders: I let them be so they keep flies, ants and other bugs out of my house (But then again, I don’t live somewhere that has any of those huge, hand-sized or extremely venomous spiders; if I did, there definitely would be a triage needed to be done!)
I have to say that I will leave smaller spiders alone. Or move them to a vent (which is how they probably got in the house in the first place. Bigger spiders that find their way into the house get removed to outside the house. Sorry. Not sorry. The spiders that are in the garage I mostly leave alone until the garage needs cleaning, then they go. However, there are 2 fairly large spiders that live in the corners on either side of the garage door (to the house). I let them be. I call them The Guardians. They are supposed to keep out all the other critters, ESPECIALLY the creepy ass pre-historic looking Eastern house centipede. Seems to be working.
Actually, the house centipede is another one of those little critters you might want to keep around. They can't hurt humans (our skin is generally too tough to bite through), they don't get into our food, and they eat pretty much any smaller insect they can catch like ants, cockroaches, bedbugs, flies, silverfish, and so on.
@@cbsboyer I remember being in university, and seeing one in my apartment bathtub skitter down the drain. I thought it was SO COOL! Went around to the professors asking about it. One prof: "you mean one of thos centipede things, that live in houses?" Me excitedly: "YEAH!" Prof: "It's probably a house centipede " 🤣🤣 I love watching them, actually.🥰🥰👍
My favorite synathropic animal is the cat. You said "not domesticated, but live close to humans and maybe even depend on them" and that's the first thing that came to mind.
XD watching this was difficult for me... cause I was hearing Maria in my mind yelling: "I can't liiiiiive , If living is without you... I can't liiiiiiiive, I can't give anymooooooore!"
Kitty E, that’s what makes me anxious. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference well enough and don’t really want to get my face near the thing to investigate.. IF I’m confident that the thing isn’t dangerous, then I’m happy to leave it in an out of the way spot to catch other would be guests.
I love the idea of artificial human biospheres (space habitats or what have you), and I often think about how those places might more resemble a mossy, overgrown, well lit cave with friendly critters than a sterile metal cage.
I’ve started letting spiders alone if they’re out of the way - I live in a basement so some bugs are inevitable and spiders don’t do much harm beyond looking creepy. If I find them crawling on me, though, all peace deals are off.
@@thenewbrazy9997 Anything that involves killing is a bit psychotic. You kill animals or plants for sustenance. Its just how things work in this universe. if u dont do it you die thanks to entropy
@@Andytlp theres a difference between killing to survive and killing for fun.../torture . What he did was for pure fun... which is psychotic. If you kill an animal for food you are killing to live/grow, torturing those animals would be wrong.
I've accidentally apologized to a house spider when I startled it. Sometimes these things just happen, especially when you see them as valued house guests.
I have a great arrangement with the various spiders in my house. I don't vacuum up their webs near the corners of the toilet window and various non noticeable places. Get a fair few flies that always decide to buzz around my living room light fitting for some bizarre reason, but the joke is on them as there is a small hole in the ceiling mount (used to pry the case off to sort the wires) and always have several spiders in there. Been safer for them since switching to LED bulbs so at least they arent getting cooked. All I need to do is periodically empty out the husks they leave in at the bottom of the glass globes and less pests. I have never seen spiders as pests, they are great!
Certain times of the year I must remember to check the shower/tub & sinks in my bathroom before running the water because there is most likely a spider in need of being fished out of there or ending up down the drain. I usually just use a magazine to kind of scoop them up or get them to crawl on it & them put it on the floor away from me so they can make a hasty exit. The only spiders not tolerated to live in the house are the black widows which can kill our small dog.
I have noticed there's an insect that looks like a tiny mosquito but with large wings (compared to their size) inside many bathrooms, but I've never seen one outside. They are very dumb, often fly into water and are very easy to crush with 2 fingers.
TheNew Brazy999 TheNew Brazy999 🙄duh. Humans provided haven for species that are about to be extinct. Even categorized species to endangered to help them revive. Don't get me wrong, I know other species went extinct because of humans too and some of these endangered species are because of poaching and human consumption but that was waaaay before humans become conservative. If anything, humans are invasive but not parasitic. Because humans have to progress, we even provided shelter for other species mentioned in the video.
I tolerate a few house spiders. I see them occasionally, but let them scout for a meal. I've seen small outdoor spiders in the Spring grow large by Fall, specially in Washington State and Okinawa.
Climbing frog on my door, eating the bugs by my porch light: Hey man, you sure this is okay? Purple martin nesting in my garden: Totally dude, they love it. Go easy, though, you don’t want to get dependent.
My friend developed an emotional attachment to a spider in the corner of his room and came to school one day really sad bc he hadn’t seen it in a couple of days and his mom probably killed it and he was losing sleep over it
I've been telling people for years now that spiders keep the flies out but they disregard that logic. Tbh at least they never contested that fact, they just didn't care enough of that due to their unreasonable fears.
0:15 I carefully catch it and put it in a cupboard, because _that's_ where spiders belong! Or I just chase it away, because where spiders belong is out of sight/on the ceiling. I also sometimes put them behind a sofa, or somewhere else out of the way. (Also please note that the cupboards I put them in are full length cupboards with door-doors (a bit like walk-in closets, although they don't have enough space to walk into) where our gas and electricity are. I'm also pretty confident they could leave if they wanted to as the doors aren't exactly sealed and stop a little way above the floor - there's a small gap at the bottom that is.)
I used to keep pet spiders as a kid. I had a redback spider at age 8 and huntsman spider at age 9-10. My dad and I used to go up a local hill here to get grasshoppers for that huntsman spider.
I once bought a bag of fancy gourmet purple popcorn, looking forward to popping it when the weather got cooler. When I opened the sealed bag with its built-in zipper-lock, a bunch of tiny little moth-looking things were milling around in it. I took it back to Whole Foods and got my money back.
• 2:23 - I've always wondered how there can be so many spiders in the house and what they eat when there are few, if any flies (especially in the winter). 😕 I can understand them being in kitchen, but what food is there in the bathroom? 🤨 • 3:52 - I wonder if Pine Martens eat Purple Martins. 🤔 • 6:03 - Just tell me that Indianmeal moth are on this list. Those bastards will ruin _everything,_ all foods and clothes. 😒
Except for the rare tarantula exported to the outdoors, I leave spiders in the house. Once a spider in the kitchen caught a scorpion in its web. Usually I catch and release scorpions too, but that time it was better to let nature take its course.
My face lit up at the first sentence, because that is exactly what I did today. I saw a large spider on the wall, I trapped it with a plastic cup, slid an envelope underneath it, and released it outside. And I felt proud of it. But now that I know it could've died makes me sad. :(
Human body lice is actually another example because its thought that they didnt evolve until the invention of clothes. Lice usually can only survive in dense hair or feathers, so the lice we usually have, the Head and Pubic louse, werent able to leave their respective areas on the body. But with the invention and widespread use of clothes, these insects were able to move to other parts of the body and remain unexposed due to clothes protecting them from the elements and from view of the host most of the time.
I currently have a house spider living in the corner of my kitchen window. I chat to it while I wash my dishes, and I'll leave my screen door open for a while to make sure it has enough to eat. I enjoy my eight-leggedy housemates
Granary weevils are also called rice weevils and it is the reason you should always freeze a bag of rice overnight after purchasing and then rinse the rice before using it.
I actually saved a spider by taking it back indoors. I mean, I threw it out first, but then when I opened the door I realized it was freezing outside so I took the spider back inside. During the few moment it took me to find the spider it had frozen stiff, so I blew some warm air on it and it started moving again. Luckily in the winter there are only small spiders in my house, I’m not as comfortable with the larger wolf spiders, but so far I haven’t encountered one in the winter.
The most recent spider I saw was whilst changing the bed clothes. I 'encouraged' it to get under the bed where I knew it would be safe, then continued :) .
We live with a tiny spider we've named Charlotte (not very original, I know). She lives behind a painting hung over the mantle piece in our living room. She eats flour moths, which we have a lot of because of our parrots' food. We love Charlotte, but we do wish that she wouldn't leave little piles of dessicated moth corpses on the mantle - so unsightly!
Supposedly the black specks in your instant grits are ground up weevils. Doesn't make sense to try to separate them from the corn so they're just ground up together.
If spiders stay in THEIR place in MY home np. Just like the dog stays off the furniture spiders are restricted as well. Personally I have a pest control company to rid MY home of ALL creepy crawlies. 😁
The older I have gotten, I am more accepting of insects in my environment. I figure they were created for a reason. But just stay the he!! outa my ears and mouth and crawling on me when I sleep Eeeeeek!
It's a nice unintentional side effect of using one of those long tube headbands as eye/ear covering during sleep: low to no risk of bugs in your ears while sleeping. I just started doing it because I don't sleep as well without some sort of slight weight against my face/ears.
That spider that lives in the corner of my living room up high can stay there, he catches the occasional fly that gets in when I open the doors or windows. Every time I see him with a new kill I thank him for his service. A true American hero.
I wonder if, a couple millenia from now, house spiders are on a course to just become cute and non-threatening looking, or at least more so. Something that would make them visually distinct enough to lower how often they get smooshed, and being a less freaky looking spider would become a bonus trait.
That's a really interesting thought! Maine Coon cats evolved on their own to be cuter than normal with big eyes and ears and to be friendlier than normal with humans and dogs which allowed them to be taken into our homes. Or at least allowed to be around. Though, the cats were already cute to begin with. They just evolved to be even cuter. But maybe the house spiders could evolve to look less like spiders somehow over time. Maybe more like jumping spiders or something.
To deter the Webbing Clothes Moth Use blocks of Cedar wod in your closets and draws where you store your sweaters and clothes or you can take an orange, and stick lots of cloves into it and hang it in your closet in an onion bag to prevent the moths from eating up your clothing.
Plot twist: the moths actually hate the taste of wool, they're just making sure you won't have any warm clothes so the heating stays on, just the way they like it
LAMP
IF I CAN’T BE WARM NO ONE CAN
so they're just assholes
Had a very long-standing arrangement with a spider named “bathroom spider” that lived behind the toilet.. up until my cat found him.
Yikes. Cats really do eat everything.
@@revolver265 Cats are adorable little murder machines.
Yeah. I close the bathroom door when I'm not using it, to save on toilet paper, and spider lives. (I have a cat)
Ahhh gotta love the food chain!
Me and a spider in my bathtub
The only time I have issue with my 8 legged housemates is when they string a web from the ceiling and dangle above or rather near to my face.
You can roam free everywhere else but that's just creepy
Mine are allowed to live anywhere but the bedroom. I've had one too many fall on my face above my bed. Currently have one living in my bathroom who is doing a good job eating ants
As long as they stay out of sight of my archnaphobic housemates and eat the pests, they can stay
Trying to show you how much they care!
Count Rye Same. The mammalian housemates are allowed in the bed but the arachnids are not. I feel strongly about this.
Edit: a word
Ever since one did that very thing as a child and crawling over my hyperventilating chest...still can’t get over it at the very sight of them 🤦🏻♂️
I grew up in the Philippines, and I was maybe 12 or 13 when I realized how helpful spiders are.
We had a larger spider, maybe the size of my hand, living in our showers for the longest time. Freaked you out the first time you saw it, but it honestly just sat there and killed cockroaches. Must have made friends with the geckos that would hang out behind picture frames above the TV. These two beautiful "pets" probably kept my whole family from contracting lots of mosquito-borne diseases growing up.
And chances are the 3-foot-long lizard that lived behind the door in the kitchen kept us from contracting some type of rat plague.
Kinda beautiful :)
I had a pet spider that escaped into my parents' basement years ago. She kept the basement nearly bug free for many years. And when my dad was in Okinawa he had a wild lizard who he let live inside and run around on the walls. Apparently the lizard kept a lot of the bugs out of his home, too. I purposely let wolf spiders live in my home still. Though, my cats will catch anything they see, including the spiders. The cats keep my home pretty bug free, too.
A door lizard is necessary for every modern home.
@@maxblast8210 not mine ðough. We have none and live alright
I love the spiders. They're actually quite helpful. Not the geckos though, those things poop is disgusting and annoying.
The common spider I leave alone. They pay rent by killing other insects and I respect this symbiosis we have. Spider bros are welcome here (within reason).
I with you bro!
thanks kyle
Much love to the spider bros 💖
Spiders are always welcome until the TV gets a littler brighter and I see a tennis ball sized outline with 8 legs on the ceiling. Then its chancla time
Good thing cobwebs aren't from spiders.
Dung beetles do the job you don't want to doodoo.
Can't believe you passed on that one.
Dung beetles doodoo the job you don't want to.
I never put spiders outside, I just relocate them near windows to catch flies and mosquitoes. They get food and I don't get annoyed, win win
@C. Caner Telimenli and not under your bed hahaha
I put them in the guest bedroom, in specific the pillows. Anybody want to spend a night ?
As an Australian I completely agree that spiders get a bad rap
@@thenewbrazy9997 there's just one problem with your plan. You've told everyone it was intentional and they'll then know where you sleep.
It depends on the spider. I'll put wolf spiders outside, but I leave wall spiders and cobweb spiders alone. Sometimes I'll relocate unknown spiders to the garage.
Spider: I LOVE U HUMAN!!
Human: DIE DEMON!!
Watched an explanation why most diseases like smallpox came from Europe while the Americas had none. But they gave us house spiders, so screw them.
Yeah let's show the little 8-legged room mates some love and focus on wiping out the mosquitos...especially Anopheles albitarsis.
Jeff and Billy in a nutshell.
I love my house spiders. They keep eating annoying outdoor bugs that got inside.
Glad to learn that my stubborn insistence on leaving spiders alone is justified. I tell my kids (and the occasional guest who finds a spider) "I have no quarrel with spiders. As long as they stay off me, they are welcome to stay."
I have these little black spiders that are always around in the house.
Its weird because the same spiders have been living for ...decades.under the latch to my barn.
I don't mess with them until they start crawling across the ceiling over my head. The thought of them dropping down on me is a bridge too far.
Usually, I will just knock them off the ceiling with a magazine and and fling them out the door.
I always feel bad about it. I tell them: Quit walking on the ceiling over me and I will ignore you!
I don't think they speak English very well.
They speak Spidiish pronounced Sp-eye-dish, which could be easier to learn if you already know antish, swedish or spanish which are similar variations
I don't think they have ears, they probably don't hear you.
ils parlent francais?
If you spoke to the web you could communicate with them. The flys vibrate the web in a way that says dinner time.
They're pretty unlikely to drop down.
00:13 Is it alright if I put it in someone else's house?
Well, I doubt the spider would complain.
Try a rattlesnake if you don't like them. One in the mailbox works.
Yes.
@@TheRogueWolf Sure it would, that web took a lot of time and effort to make
Lawful chaotic
I'm watching the granary weevils segment right as I'm biting into my rice, beans, and cheese burrito...yum
7:06 "flying sweater eating version of Eddie Redmayne" I wonder who made this line 😂
"...like a bunch of SUCKERS."
💯
I came prepared to make the same comment.
SciShow: Moth
Moth: *L Ä M P*
"Inside, These Spiders can act as effective pest control"
Me: **turns to the cat in my lap** "Like you!"
I WAS eating a bowl of rice before this video
If you had any idea how many bugs you've eaten in your life without ever knowing it, your head would explode.
Just wash your rice beforehand
Don't worry, you didn't eat that thing, it live in wheat. Only rice weevils and maize weevils live in rice.
I cannot be the only person OCD enough to want to iron his shirt collar. Love the videos, please keep them coming.
And his hair, was also distracting
Thank you SO MUCH for pointing that out. Now I can't take my eyes off it.
Now all I can see is the collar lol thanks.
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I have a spider living in my home gym. She longer reacts to me being around. I named her Sally the spider.
_Seeing a spider at the corner of the eye with love_
Woah hang on there, don't go too far with that loving gaze
I’m okay with spiders to an extent as long as they continue to kill bugs while leaving me alone
Eh, once they’re in my room, shower, or sink, I feel like killing them is fair game. 😂
But what could they ever do? I have grown fond of the one on the left side of my bed
Maya W. Once it’s like in my sight, it’s dead, but out of sight out of mind
O F the energy in this comment is lethal-
O F, they poop all over the place. Where I have particularly prosperous spiders, there are hard to clean dots of spider doo found below. I don’t kill them, but I do evict them. I figure, even if they do die outside, at least something might be able to eat them.
Our feelings on them... vary... considerably. The delivery cracked me right up. It's your honesty Hank, keeps me watching.
Ive seen spiders in my house yes.
@NML Wright For the last 3 months I've only seen one, and she's in the mirror.
I couldn't sleep the other night because I saw a spider in my bed and I lost track of it
@@christelheadington1136 Can't let those mirror-world squatters have anything. Does she pay rent?
@@CommanderTornado Heck, she won't even clean the mirror.
I let spiders be but if they get too close, they know what happens.
If I can’t see the weevils, they’re just extra protein.
I can honestly say that I've encountered a rice weevil for the first time just a few months ago.
That is even more impressive considering that I am a chef.
Caprophagic diet, synanthropic, and living in Iceland.
"What are dung beetles Alex?"
* "Who is Weird Magnus, Alex?"
@@patrickmccurry1563 the Magnus who made a pair of pants from the skin of his friend?
Shouldn't it be coprophagic? There's one one caprophagic creature I know of, and that's el chupacabra.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio possibly... I am not Greek and haven't listened to Daniel Tosh lately, so...
3:36 Hey, I see both of those in my garden! Especially the little sparrows, but sometimes we see the bigger starlings too, which are so pretty with the little white star-like dots. And we get a whole load of sparrows in our rosebush throughout most of the day; it's really very lovely. We get other birds too, like pigeons, a pair of blackbirds, some bluetits, a robin, and some occasional dunnocks. One day I even saw a couple of rooks (I think... large corvids anyway) fighting over the bird food I put out, but they never came back unfortunately. I live in England by the way.
the spiders have a contract. they stay in the corner, they live.
In my home it's the same case. Spiders are my roomates
At this point, I don't think we would live long without science.
Not anymore lol
That's why it's good to learn as much as possible so you don't have to rely on science as much.
Science is fake lol. Believe in god he is the only way you can be saved!!! Science is what the media and government uses to control peoples minds!
We've been giving it a good try since 2016 in the USA.
@@yeahokbuddy2510
And we can't forget the favourite: head lice
why hasn't anyone asked where head lice came from...just glad there isn't back hair lice
@@VICTORdoomm if memory serves, head lice evolved with us. (And genetal lice did not)
Just gonna leave that one there for people to think about.
@SigmaTauri2 From around crotch level I assume.
@SigmaTauri2 from jumping from dead gorillas eaten for food to humans.
@@BartJBols Nah man, someone been clapping them gorrilla cheekz.
cool. looks like i’m never eating rice again.
That's what I got out of this too.
why can't we actually domesticate house spiders tho? like, set up spots that are extra-conducive for their webs, and actually keeps them safe from most of our own human activity?
The ones in my house seem partial to living in the windows in dining room. There's a big one living in a crack in the wood by a window. I named that one Phil. Given what is stuck in Phil's web, I think the li'l' dude deserves some credit for making trouble for this summer's ant infestation by virtue of frequently being really damn hungry. His neighbor under the windowsill is a big momma spider that I named Mary. Also all her babies spread around the dining room. The babies also mostly catch ants. Mary seems to be a bit dim, given that I've seen her fall out of her own web twice while trying to repair it, but somehow she caught a small cockroach last week. Good for Mary, I'd rather have a slightly-dense spider around the house than a skittering cockroach.
I didn't used to like spiders very much, but then I started watching them more closely and realized that they have their own little personalities and are as interesting and as uniquely themself as any dwarf carp (those silver-color ones they sell alongside baby koi fish in pet shops. I used to have one that my brother had named Dollar Bill 'cuz we saved a dollar off the 3-dollar price of the fish because the pet shop apparently needed space for a new shipment of yellow koi coming in a few days.) in a home fishpond. Also, the spider probably won't get stolen by a racer snake (RIP Dollar Bill). At least I should hope not, if you've got a spider hanging out in your house big enough to attract a 5-and-a-half-foot-long snake, you've got other problems, namely that you live in Australia, so catching the snake and putting it someplace that isn't your house is probably above your pay grade.
They built their city... on rock & roll.
Synanthropic sounds like Minecraft enchantment language
@@AxxLAfriku Are you having a stroke?
@@cinnis5670 Yes. He is having a stroke.
I never kill spiders: I let them be so they keep flies, ants and other bugs out of my house (But then again, I don’t live somewhere that has any of those huge, hand-sized or extremely venomous spiders; if I did, there definitely would be a triage needed to be done!)
I have to say that I will leave smaller spiders alone. Or move them to a vent (which is how they probably got in the house in the first place. Bigger spiders that find their way into the house get removed to outside the house. Sorry. Not sorry. The spiders that are in the garage I mostly leave alone until the garage needs cleaning, then they go. However, there are 2 fairly large spiders that live in the corners on either side of the garage door (to the house). I let them be. I call them The Guardians. They are supposed to keep out all the other critters, ESPECIALLY the creepy ass pre-historic looking Eastern house centipede. Seems to be working.
this is cute. i love The Guardians lol
House centipedes are the devil!!! May The Guardians fare well!
We have house spiders that bite so I do get rid of them.
Actually, the house centipede is another one of those little critters you might want to keep around. They can't hurt humans (our skin is generally too tough to bite through), they don't get into our food, and they eat pretty much any smaller insect they can catch like ants, cockroaches, bedbugs, flies, silverfish, and so on.
@@cbsboyer I remember being in university, and seeing one in my apartment bathtub skitter down the drain. I thought it was SO COOL!
Went around to the professors asking about it. One prof: "you mean one of thos centipede things, that live in houses?" Me excitedly: "YEAH!" Prof: "It's probably a house centipede " 🤣🤣
I love watching them, actually.🥰🥰👍
My favorite synathropic animal is the cat.
You said "not domesticated, but live close to humans and maybe even depend on them" and that's the first thing that came to mind.
XD watching this was difficult for me... cause I was hearing Maria in my mind yelling: "I can't liiiiiive
, If living is without you... I can't liiiiiiiive, I can't give anymooooooore!"
Hank: leave the spiders alone, they’re non-dangerous. Australians: yeah nah.
Percy Gallagher Even here we have brown Recluse and biting spiders. Sorry, but I'm killing them. XD
@@kittye8340 I had a black widow living near my heater all winter. We got along fine.
Kitty E, that’s what makes me anxious. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference well enough and don’t really want to get my face near the thing to investigate.. IF I’m confident that the thing isn’t dangerous, then I’m happy to leave it in an out of the way spot to catch other would be guests.
Most spiders found in homes are pretty harmless, but the sheds, garage and even small nooks outside are where you got to be careful.
Lol
So glad I live in the U.K. where all the spiders are about as scary as a damp blanket.
I actually had a common house spider on my loofah during my morning shower today lol I thought it was a tick! Nope, just a little house spider. RIP.
I keep bold jumper spiders in almost every window. They are awesome house keepers along with the spitting spiders.
I love the idea of artificial human biospheres (space habitats or what have you), and I often think about how those places might more resemble a mossy, overgrown, well lit cave with friendly critters than a sterile metal cage.
5:38 wha... ...w-what was that about maggots in my rice??? can you say that again?????
I know, right? Ignorance is bliss lol Now I feel like I need to throw out the bag of rice in my pantry.
That is why you gotta wash out the rice before cooking and eating it.
The good thing is that those weevil maggots are light enough to float on the water you wash your rice with so they're easy to dispose.
I’ve started letting spiders alone if they’re out of the way - I live in a basement so some bugs are inevitable and spiders don’t do much harm beyond looking creepy. If I find them crawling on me, though, all peace deals are off.
Sometimes i feed mosquitoes to the spider that lives in a corner of my room
How? If you kill them first, the will not eat them anyways. They are unable to recognize anything which is not moving as food.
@@psykkomancz yeah, it's difficult, i have to squish the mosquitoes just enough to leave them alive and then leave it on the spider's web
@@argentavisimpia1390 thats just a tad bit psychotic
@@thenewbrazy9997 Anything that involves killing is a bit psychotic. You kill animals or plants for sustenance. Its just how things work in this universe. if u dont do it you die thanks to entropy
@@Andytlp theres a difference between killing to survive and killing for fun.../torture . What he did was for pure fun... which is psychotic. If you kill an animal for food you are killing to live/grow, torturing those animals would be wrong.
I'll happily leave any size spider in my home, even talk to it in passing, much to my daughters disgust
Your daughter’s weird. Why wouldn’t you converse with your house guests?
I've accidentally apologized to a house spider when I startled it. Sometimes these things just happen, especially when you see them as valued house guests.
I talk to my spiders, too. I tell the wolf spiders to hide so my cats don't find them.
I have a great arrangement with the various spiders in my house. I don't vacuum up their webs near the corners of the toilet window and various non noticeable places. Get a fair few flies that always decide to buzz around my living room light fitting for some bizarre reason, but the joke is on them as there is a small hole in the ceiling mount (used to pry the case off to sort the wires) and always have several spiders in there. Been safer for them since switching to LED bulbs so at least they arent getting cooked. All I need to do is periodically empty out the husks they leave in at the bottom of the glass globes and less pests. I have never seen spiders as pests, they are great!
Thank you for giving me answer for my mother when she asks why I didn’t do anything about the spider in the bathroom.
This is so funny.
Here I was thinking the my bathroom spider - Howard - was just being me.
Tab but weird.
Now I see there are lots of us!
Cool!
As long as they don't land on me, I'm fine co-existing with them.
8:17 - Mosquitoes - "A bunch of suckers..." YESSSSSS
I've been watching Sci Show for years. I liked their videos. That is why I decided to create my own sci-fi/futurist Channel. 👍🙂
Good !, I subbed
Wink wink, plug plug 😁
Certain times of the year I must remember to check the shower/tub & sinks in my bathroom before running the water because there is most likely a spider in need of being fished out of there or ending up down the drain. I usually just use a magazine to kind of scoop them up or get them to crawl on it & them put it on the floor away from me so they can make a hasty exit. The only spiders not tolerated to live in the house are the black widows which can kill our small dog.
I really didn't need to know about the granary weevils 😒
Whoever wrote this script and failed to include a joke about "purple Martins' majesty" needs a formal sanction
...but THIS land is MY land. Not Martin's...
I have noticed there's an insect that looks like a tiny mosquito but with large wings (compared to their size) inside many bathrooms, but I've never seen one outside. They are very dumb, often fly into water and are very easy to crush with 2 fingers.
How did bedbugs not make this list? I haven't checked but I'll bet the common bedbug is almost never found outside of human residences anymore.
Who would miss them if they went extinct?
Probably because they are not synanthropic but straight up parasites, which is something different.
Yeah, they don't merely benefit, they are strictly parasitic. Even if some are strictly mooching off our food.
@@stevestanton5766 humans are parasitic if not even pandemic causing organisms
TheNew Brazy999 TheNew Brazy999 🙄duh. Humans provided haven for species that are about to be extinct. Even categorized species to endangered to help them revive. Don't get me wrong, I know other species went extinct because of humans too and some of these endangered species are because of poaching and human consumption but that was waaaay before humans become conservative. If anything, humans are invasive but not parasitic. Because humans have to progress, we even provided shelter for other species mentioned in the video.
“Flying, sweater-eating version of Eddie Redmayne” might be the cutest description of a bug I’ve ever heard.
you forget about adding Mark Zuckerburg and the lizard people
Starlings... Invasive in the Americas, but only cause some guy really liked European poetry.
Lol 😂
@@RosiePosey5150 at least someone got it ;)
I tolerate a few house spiders. I see them occasionally, but let them scout for a meal. I've seen small outdoor spiders in the Spring grow large by Fall, specially in Washington State and Okinawa.
Climbing frog on my door, eating the bugs by my porch light: Hey man, you sure this is okay?
Purple martin nesting in my garden: Totally dude, they love it. Go easy, though, you don’t want to get dependent.
When I was younger I didn't like spiders but now that I'm older I leave them alone because the victims in the web tells me they're doing a great job.
Me: trying to sleep
SciShow: nope
I need that KNAWLEDGE
I don't think I like any of these except the purple Martins! Darn our consistently warm households & supplies of livestock!
i always get excited when i see a spider. I say hello to it and sometimes watch it move around.
My friend developed an emotional attachment to a spider in the corner of his room and came to school one day really sad bc he hadn’t seen it in a couple of days and his mom probably killed it and he was losing sleep over it
I've been telling people for years now that spiders keep the flies out but they disregard that logic.
Tbh at least they never contested that fact, they just didn't care enough of that due to their unreasonable fears.
0:15 I carefully catch it and put it in a cupboard, because _that's_ where spiders belong! Or I just chase it away, because where spiders belong is out of sight/on the ceiling. I also sometimes put them behind a sofa, or somewhere else out of the way.
(Also please note that the cupboards I put them in are full length cupboards with door-doors (a bit like walk-in closets, although they don't have enough space to walk into) where our gas and electricity are. I'm also pretty confident they could leave if they wanted to as the doors aren't exactly sealed and stop a little way above the floor - there's a small gap at the bottom that is.)
I used to keep pet spiders as a kid. I had a redback spider at age 8 and huntsman spider at age 9-10. My dad and I used to go up a local hill here to get grasshoppers for that huntsman spider.
I once bought a bag of fancy gourmet purple popcorn, looking forward to popping it when the weather got cooler. When I opened the sealed bag with its built-in zipper-lock, a bunch of tiny little moth-looking things were milling around in it. I took it back to Whole Foods and got my money back.
• 2:23 - I've always wondered how there can be so many spiders in the house and what they eat when there are few, if any flies (especially in the winter). 😕 I can understand them being in kitchen, but what food is there in the bathroom? 🤨
• 3:52 - I wonder if Pine Martens eat Purple Martins. 🤔
• 6:03 - Just tell me that Indianmeal moth are on this list. Those bastards will ruin _everything,_ all foods and clothes. 😒
Except for the rare tarantula exported to the outdoors, I leave spiders in the house.
Once a spider in the kitchen caught a scorpion in its web.
Usually I catch and release scorpions too, but that time it was better to let nature take its course.
"these animals aren't domesticated, but they still depend on humans on some degree"
ah so you mean like a cat
@Commentator - Not true. They're useful for keeping away them icky people who don't like cats. Wish they did as well on the mosquitoes!
@Commentator He means people with any sense of standards and don't enjoy domesticated rats sh*tting in sandboxes in their houses.
F*cking disgusting.
Nope! My house! More than four legs, gtfo!
My face lit up at the first sentence, because that is exactly what I did today. I saw a large spider on the wall, I trapped it with a plastic cup, slid an envelope underneath it, and released it outside. And I felt proud of it. But now that I know it could've died makes me sad. :(
Hank's almost poetic elucidation is especially crisp, this episode. DFTBA
But without Hank, where are other hosts? I miss MICHAEL...
Human body lice is actually another example because its thought that they didnt evolve until the invention of clothes. Lice usually can only survive in dense hair or feathers, so the lice we usually have, the Head and Pubic louse, werent able to leave their respective areas on the body. But with the invention and widespread use of clothes, these insects were able to move to other parts of the body and remain unexposed due to clothes protecting them from the elements and from view of the host most of the time.
Spiders are amazing
I love scishow
Moth: lamp?... LAMP!!!!
This is even better if you hear it in your head like the dog from "Over the hedge.". "Play? PLAY!"
I currently have a house spider living in the corner of my kitchen window. I chat to it while I wash my dishes, and I'll leave my screen door open for a while to make sure it has enough to eat.
I enjoy my eight-leggedy housemates
Granary weevils are also called rice weevils and it is the reason you should always freeze a bag of rice overnight after purchasing and then rinse the rice before using it.
I actually saved a spider by taking it back indoors. I mean, I threw it out first, but then when I opened the door I realized it was freezing outside so I took the spider back inside. During the few moment it took me to find the spider it had frozen stiff, so I blew some warm air on it and it started moving again. Luckily in the winter there are only small spiders in my house, I’m not as comfortable with the larger wolf spiders, but so far I haven’t encountered one in the winter.
I have a teeny tiny spider in my bathroom corner. His name is Alan. We respect each other’s space and don’t bother each other, he’s a pal😂
The mere mention of mosquitos made my skin tingly...
The most recent spider I saw was whilst changing the bed clothes. I 'encouraged' it to get under the bed where I knew it would be safe, then continued :) .
We live with a tiny spider we've named Charlotte (not very original, I know). She lives behind a painting hung over the mantle piece in our living room. She eats flour moths, which we have a lot of because of our parrots' food. We love Charlotte, but we do wish that she wouldn't leave little piles of dessicated moth corpses on the mantle - so unsightly!
that mosquito is using our trick to survive, such gamer move
I leave spiders in my house alone, because I figure, they kill the stuff I want in my house a lot less than a spider.
Same
Supposedly the black specks in your instant grits are ground up weevils. Doesn't make sense to try to separate them from the corn so they're just ground up together.
I wonder what bugs will hitch a ride with us when we colonize mars.
If spiders stay in THEIR place in MY home np. Just like the dog stays off the furniture spiders are restricted as well. Personally I have a pest control company to rid MY home of ALL creepy crawlies. 😁
I'm a simple man. When I see Hank, I go to full screen.
The older I have gotten, I am more accepting of insects in my environment. I figure they were created for a reason. But just stay the he!! outa my ears and mouth and crawling on me when I sleep Eeeeeek!
It's a nice unintentional side effect of using one of those long tube headbands as eye/ear covering during sleep: low to no risk of bugs in your ears while sleeping. I just started doing it because I don't sleep as well without some sort of slight weight against my face/ears.
Probably shouldn't tell you about the bacteria in your gut then... OOOPS! Too late...
That spider that lives in the corner of my living room up high can stay there, he catches the occasional fly that gets in when I open the doors or windows. Every time I see him with a new kill I thank him for his service. A true American hero.
I wonder if, a couple millenia from now, house spiders are on a course to just become cute and non-threatening looking, or at least more so. Something that would make them visually distinct enough to lower how often they get smooshed, and being a less freaky looking spider would become a bonus trait.
That's a really interesting thought! Maine Coon cats evolved on their own to be cuter than normal with big eyes and ears and to be friendlier than normal with humans and dogs which allowed them to be taken into our homes. Or at least allowed to be around. Though, the cats were already cute to begin with. They just evolved to be even cuter. But maybe the house spiders could evolve to look less like spiders somehow over time. Maybe more like jumping spiders or something.
To deter the Webbing Clothes Moth Use blocks of Cedar wod in your closets and draws where you store your sweaters and clothes or you can take an orange, and stick lots of cloves into it and hang it in your closet in an onion bag to prevent the moths from eating up your clothing.
I, for one, love my little tenants.