TIL Earth's electric field can make spiders propel into the air and fly across entire oceans
TIL Earth's electric field can make spiders propel into the air and fly across entire oceans
Spiders don’t have wings, but they can fly across entire oceans on long strands of silk. For more than a century, scientists thought it was the wind that carried them, but a new study shows the Earth’s electric field can propel these flying arachnids too.
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Hooray. This brought up one of the less pleasant memories from my childhood involving the natural world.
My room was in the basement of the house. It was only a half-finished basement and my room took up most of the finished half. But because it was only half finished, spiders were not a stranger to my room.
One day, I woke up and my face was weirdly itchy. I turned on the light and a billion little transparent baby spiders were hanging all over the room by little threads! I freaked the fuck out and ran upstairs and slept on the couch for two days. Thankfully, they were gone when I went back down.
They weren't gone, you just couldn't see them.
As long as they kept to themselves and didn't crawl on my face en masse, or at least wake me up while doing it, that's okay with me.
Nice. I like it when people live and let live.
Excpet for bed bugs. Bed bugs can fuck right off.
And bats. Scabies too.
What's wrong with bats?
Rabies. They bite you when you sleep.
rabies possibility
Hey, I won't kink-shame.
I did not consent!
Are… are you okay? Like do you need some mental help. I think I would need to visit a psych ward after something like that. Hell seeing arachnophobia as a kid messed me up let alone actually living out a version of it in real life.
It was over 30 years ago, so I have overcome the PTSD.
Or at least pushed it waaaaay down in a little ball where that trauma and horror can't do you any damage!
Right?
Oof ive had similar happen to me, not a fun time lol. They were so tiny too!
I guess I'm just glad I wasn't their mother or they might have tried to eat me.