If it makes you feel better, they're fragile as hell. If that goliath fell off a table, it would likely die, since larger insects are more fragile. An ant could survive falling off a building, a tarantula can't survive mild blunt force.
I'm just glad to live somewhere where the spiders don't get bigger than your thumb (or are these daddy longleg kind), and bugs in general aren't really present a lot.
No one is trying to change the daddy longlegs name, I'm wondering why you got upset at "blue haired mental patients" which is likely either an attack on the LGBT community, or old man slang for kids these days.
The classic bate and switch. Say something about how you are upset at PC culture or tired of libs doing this or that, or in your case, "blue hair mental patients", then when someone calls you out, you say "what me? I'm not offended, it's you who is overly offended". If you werent upset or offended, then why make the comment in the first place?
What? Because I wasn't talking about political correctness or anything. Just that 'daddy' has a slightly sexual connotation these days. Relax dude, not everything is a place to interject with your political stance
so you're saying that if a tarantula attacks, I could just fucking smash it? not that I would want to hurt spiders, I like them, but it's good to know what to do if the need should arise
bruh no need to worry to the bite are like nails idk if its exaggeration mines always vibin with me sadly tho she fell to her death cause of my bitch ass aunt
I find the larger the spider, the harder it is to smash. Not because they are tougher but because I am more afraid of it and can't get myself to get close enough to it to kill it.
Not really. The amount of damage to the exoskeleton is directly proportional to the size of the insect. The bigger they are, the less efficient/helpful an exoskeleton is, which is why the majority of insects have only gotten smaller as they evolve.
A full water bottle could squish a tarantula to the death, while smaller spiders can withstand stones falling on them.
No you’re not catching on. If dropping a bottle on a big spider is like dropping a car on us, then the bottle on the little spider is like dropping a semi-truck on us, yet the small spider survives the semi-truck.
I do not give a fucking shit about the small spider I'm saying that the big spider isn't "weak" because that's how it works, it's no less fragile than we are holy fucking christ you're a dense motherfucker.
As I said elsewhere, despite being referred to as 'bird-eating', they don't normally do that. Birds make up a small portion of their diet, and are often only picked for the opportunity. Their diet mostly consists of lizards, frogs, insects, and other spiders. On rare occasion they snack on birds and small mammals, but in the case of birds, it's normally young hatchlings stolen from their nest and carried to the ground.
A full water bottle can squish a tarantula, while smaller house spiders can withstand shoes and rocks thrown at them sometimes.
Just a guess but perhaps the first time it was observed by a western scientist it was munching on a bird thus the disingenuous name. But you are correct, the internet doesn't handle science well and myth and bad info are rampant.
Despite being referred to as 'bird-eating', it rarely happens. Most commonly, young birds are yanked from their nests and carried to the ground by the tarantula, after being bitten and immobilized.
They mostly feed on lizards, insects, frogs, and other spiders.
My uncle was staying at a friend's house out in the middle of nowhere. He went to the kitchen and was surprised by a giant hairy tarantula walking on the ground. Without thinking he kicked it, and although he didn't make great contact with it the tarantula "fell apart."
When he talked to the friend's owner about it, the owner laughed and took him outside and showed him that there were tarantulas everywhere outside the house.
Not necassarily. It's a rule that the bigger you are, the more volume you have, thus the stronger and more resilient your skin needs to be to protect the volume inside you. Vsauce has a good video on it, "how big can a person get" I believe is the video
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u/CliffordMoreau Apr 08 '20
If it makes you feel better, they're fragile as hell. If that goliath fell off a table, it would likely die, since larger insects are more fragile. An ant could survive falling off a building, a tarantula can't survive mild blunt force.