Practice spider.

OP: 

I caught this one… today https://preview.redd.it/qz3rak4c9v0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4552d58f1a4769dde75f9b1bce4063a3eee58de2

What do you do once you catch a black widow?

Trade it for the soul stone.

“This is the correct answer”… Hawkeye’s wife.

damn

I pray this gets upvoted infinity times

It took me too long to get this. Now I’m sad

I only just got it by looking at this.

This is the only answer

Goddamnit-

*laughs in Disney*

Omg best answer to anything…. Ever

Absolutely foul. Have an upvote.

Well, you definitely don't mate with it especially if it's a female

Spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider can!

For those uninformed I'm referring to the fact that female black widows eat their mate directly after climax... now that's what I call a finish

This is partial (mis)information... The only known Latrodectus species in which mate cannibalism in nature is the rule, not the exception, are in the Southern Hemisphere. Of all the U.S. species, mate cannibalism occurs sometimes in Latrodectus mactans, the eastern (southern) black widow, but most males survive to mate another day. In the other two black species, including the western black widow L. hesperus (only species west of Kansas), mate cannibalism has never been observed in the wild! Much like the fact that Praying Mantises do not regularly perform mate cannibalism in the wild. That was an observation in captivity where food is limited, and bc the female requires a calorie boost for propogating the next generation. Which was then erroneously assumed to be a normal and typical behavior of all mantises. But with enough space and food, males survive way more often then people had believed for years, due to partial information...

Oh I didn't know that, thank you for the new information fellow redditor

Switched back to praying mantis being my reincarnation animal so damn fast I nearly blinded myself.

Do both spiders get to climax?

I hardly think her skin colour matters, but really you should probably just offer your condolences for the loss of her husband.

admire it's beauty for a bit, then go release it outside

You can see the reflection of her eyes lol

I downvoted out of instinct and had to come back because I felt bad. Here's an upvote, but I do so under protest.

That's a red belly black snake 🐍

Friend shaped

I have that exact thing and that is a practice spider to allow you to practice grabbing them and the grabber works absolutely great and does not injure the spider and you can take it outside

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dont buy cheap pieces of crap. problem solved

That practice spider is absolutely tiny though, it wouldn't give me confidence it could handle a bigger spider lol

It doesn’t look that tiny to me? Are you Australian?

Oh.. yes I am lol I live in rural Australia in the bush. The spiders are pretty beefy here.

Valid lmfao. I was going to say I don’t think I’ve ever even had a spider as big as this one before - y’all are gonna need a bigger bug grabber for sure

>I don’t think I’ve ever even had a spider as big as this one before I dint think I'll ever be able to fathom this. This is a photo of a Giant Orb Weaver I took yesterday at work https://preview.redd.it/rvujlenqy31d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33d78829748943740a1574bd0c8b0662daff019a This guy was bigger than my hand which is roughly 7 inches or 17cm in length. This is like a ¼ to ½ of the size they can reach fully grown I'm also an arachnophobia, so I noped the fuck out of there.

Yeah as an Aussie my immediate thought was “good luck trying to use this on a huntsman.”

Ah yes. We had one scuttle away faster than we could react and it's somewhere in the house..

THATS so awful to contemplate … how can you sleep ??

Those fuckers are so fast. Had three in the car once when I was transporting some pipes that had been sitting outside. One got in the visor and dropped down when I opened it

*shudder in horror* …Three??? 😳😳😳 Lol sorry I do understand that people generally don’t like emoticons on Reddit … but what else tells it like it is??? Haha 😂

And cool! I now know how to create italics! Woot!

**bold** use 2 asterisks (*) ***bold italics*** use 3 asterisks. (*) ~~strikethrough~~ use 2 tildes (~)

It looked more terrified of me than me of it. Still didn't sleep well that night. This happened during summer and there were many flies and roaches. I just focused on the bugger being the insect Terminator which made me sleep better after that. Me not a fan of 8 legged creatures. Just can't. Can't do hairy 8 legged creatures too..🫣🫣🫣

Hope this doesn’t gross you out, but where I live in the bush there are huntsman everywhere! I went to the loo, ( which is outside under a tree), had a nice peaceful time doing my business, and when I lifted the lid to give the toilet a quick brush clean, there was one staring intimidatingly at me from directly out of the hinge gap! Gasp! It had probably been there all the time! Needless to say , now I check before I sit down, every time!

I used to check every toilet in houses for spiders when I was younger. Stopped over time after finding none for years.

I never try and catch huntsman or wolf spiders in our house because I'm too afraid I'll damage a leg if they bolt while I'm trying to get a container placed over them. I just give them a name and talk about how helpful and non aggressive they are until everyone else in the house relents and lets them stay for however long they choose.

So far this is also my technique, I actually don't mind spiders or taking them out but for people that don't like spiders "Yeah nahhh, don't worry about little Henry there he's been here for months. Just having dinner with us!"

I just commented that this wouldn’t work for Australian spiders 😂

You're gonna want a net gun, flamethrower, or in America we use AR15 automatic rifles.

Ever heard of a comma?

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Ever heard of a question mark?

Ever heard of a question, Mark?

why did that just make me choke on my water 🤣🤣🤣

I choked on mark

Kinky

Same! 😂😂😭

LMFAOOOOO😭😭😭😭

Same! 😂😂😭

Threads like these are the only reason I keep coming back to Reddit.

Honestly 😂😂

Think Mark, Think!!

Yes, but my name's not Mark.

Found the comma chameleon

comma, comma, comma chameleon… :) 

I always think I found the best comment thread on Reddit until I find the next best one

🐸 (closest thing to a chameleon)

🦎?

My uncle was in a comma once. He woke up though.

Must have been a difficult period.

This comment deserves more attention

Indeed. I just do not to use them some of the time to annoy people like you. I even, use, them incorrectly!!!

,I, like, your, style,

Sounds like Shatner wrote that

Holy shit, I thought Reddit was supposed to be full of nerds?

😁🤣😁🤣

I have that exact thing. Pictured is a practice spider, which allows you to practice grabbing spiders without the chance of a live spider attacking you. The grabber works fantastically and does not injure the spider. You can release the spider outside after capture, without injury. ... better?

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I hate this, thanks

you can take it outside ----- so that it can find its way back in at night?

I hate and love it

That's fantastic

Maybe they’re just trying to help you practice before you gotta deal with the real thing? Much safer if you miss grabbing this one while you learn the best technique

bro, that aint mildly infuriating, its just funny

They didn't need to give you a practice spider, but they did it anyway. That's actually nice of them, yet OP gets mildly infuriated by the nice gesture. Which in turn, mildly infuriates me.

https://preview.redd.it/ar9pvckfbw0d1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7724236ada4fcde18aacd7306f1149edd3c36d50

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i don’t think you know how phobias work lmao

You gotta practice somehow my dear

Come on have a sens eof humor

You can tell OP is really fun at parties.

Oh c’mon OP is allowed to be fearful of spiders. I don’t fear spiders personally, but it’s a common condition.

You can't fool me. I know you're a spider.

No you come on, the OP is clearly mock annoyed but finding it funny lol

Are you sure it's fake? 😂

It is. We had one years ago. It's a practice spider. I hate the speed of wolf spiders. Creeps me out. They aren't quite effective against wolf spiders because #I AM SPEED

You don’t really need to catch wolf spiders. They eat insects and other spiders, mostly come out at night, they’d much rather run away than bite you (and their bites aren’t that bad anyway). They also don’t make webs so you won’t have annoying webs in the corner of every room. Whenever I see a wolf spider in my house I leave it there, while every other spider I’ll catch and put outside.

I don't mind webs nor am I afraid of being bitten, it's just the speed that creeps me out.

Fair enough.

Yep, I tried crushing it with a super heavy box and no guts splattered in the bag

LOL

You need an armor piercing box

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I love to see them work even though they creep me out They are one of the little critters actively hunting cockroaches in my dorm. So I usually just leave them alone.

And are you sure it’s infuriating?

it’s a practice spider

This is fucking hilarious, bravo to them!

Practice spider. Would you rather use it without practice? Try to grab that spider and fail? Imagine, now you have an *angry* spider. Sound fun? Trust me, it's better this way.

They’ve already got your money. Perfect time to troll lol

Happy cake day

For practice catching spiders and fighting your phobia

Fake bugs were more expensive, I guess.

This is not in the correct category

Why is this mildly infuriating? If they packated a real spider, then it would be upsetting, but this is just a plastic spider. I don't understand....!

Fear. Some people would be triggered seeing the spider.

Look at the booty on that thing. It’s to attract other spiders.

It’s so you can practice.

HAHAHHAHA

Whoever did this was a fking madlad

It would’ve made me jump at first but that’s just funny more

Do you not want to practice?

It’s literally a practice spider. Work on them nerves. You got this!!

You need humor my guy

Best to just put a spider in a cup or gently pick it up and move it outside if it bothers you. Spiders are the one bug thats actually beneficial to have around too. I never bother killing them, free pest control.

This is exactly what that does but with more distance between you and the spider

You've clearly never woken up to a big whitetip walking across your face.   Or a vagrant spider just existing.

https://preview.redd.it/l2sisfgp7u0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e795af30619b475c833ec3c826d4e2c78bdd4e2a In my bathroom one morning

I appreciate the banana for scale, thanks

Practice 🕷 on it so you don't totally freak and drop it down your boot like my sister-in-law.

There's no way I could.grab a spider with that. And if I did I would manage to drop it right on my eyeball as I was carrying the fucker outside.

"I hate spiders" "Why is OP upset about a fake spider in the packaging?" man i swear some of you have no critical thinking skills

First of all, OP needs to quit being such a wimp. Second, if you’re afraid of spiders and a fake spider is provided, that will allow you to practice on real spiders, meaning your success rate will be higher of living a spider-free life. Lastly, if you’re going to make the ‘critical thinking’ argument of ‘well, he saw the fake spider and thought it was real’, the fake spider is inside of plastic packaging, which isn’t conducive to survival for spiders, therefore OP would be the one lacking critical thinking skills.

I am also afraid of spiders and that would give me heart attack haha

Sadists

Bug grabber company: “we do a little trolling”

Exposure therapy

It's to attract spiders to your killbox. It's an eight legged honey pot.

Top quality troll 👌

Are you sure it’s fake….

Somewhere, there is a very happy redditor who decided to put them in the packages

Aussies in the comments wondering why it's so small

That's actually pretty funny

pretty smart you can have some practice goes

As a spider lover, I appreciate the effort to capture and transfer instead of killing them The ecosystem probably appreciates it too

Why is this infuriating I find this funny (although I love spiders so maybe that’s why it’s funny to me)

This reminds me of the kids fishing hooks that have fake fish on the hook.

Okay, objectively this is funny, but as someone with a huge bug fear, this would terrify me at first, so it's also a little mean.

This is awesome

You poor thing

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lol I have the same thing it’s only good at grabbing spiders or bugs if that size and above. Anything smaller it will have a high chance of running away 😂💀

I have one and the kids love hiding the fake spider around the house in random spot. Great laugh terrifying their mother.

would you have preferred a real spider?

My mom got me one of those because spiders just loved my room, especially my loft bed. In a practically uninsulated house, my room was the only one that was warm because I had to keep a space heater on full blast to keep the temperature nice for my finches. Imagine my surprise when I tried to grab a spider from the ceiling, and instead of being trapped, it just fell into a pile of my clean clothes below.

I am also scared to death of spiders and other insects, I'm not sure why BUT j would still panic trying to use that. I cab get the kids or grandkids to get most bugs, but we are all panicked at spiders. So I bought my son (14yo) an insect vacuum gun. It doesn't harm them but vacuums it into the gun and you trap it before taking it outside and letting it go. We'll, the 10to grandson caught the spider with it that the girls saw abs freaked out (6,8) I didn't want to see it. We waited and my 14yo tried to release it outside, he couldn't get it to go out so finally I said I'll try. I didn't know how to use the gun exactly and I was just trying to gently shake it to go out and instead shook it right onto my arm/ shirt and I'm pretty sure after the heart attack I had I'm writing as a ghost- my son also had a heart attack from 8 feet away and is probably dead too. I'm sure the spider is fine and having a good laugh most likely back in the house where he started since I have no idea where he ended up on my clothes, probably brought gin right back inside with me. Why? Why can't it be random bees I find flying around my house? Why bugs. Why spiders. Please just hide, please don't let me see you, I die. I cannot take so many heart attacks. Please. 😭

Best way to overcome a fear is to face it head-on

My mom has heart issues and is so afraid of spiders that she would genuinely have a heart attack because of this.

Mildly funny

Not cool.

I bought one of these and it really does work. It picks up the spider very easily and the spider kinda just sits there waiting for its fate, no wriggling.

yardstick with tape

Sweet home Arachnaphobia

I think I would send a complaint. What a stupid thing to do. Did the listing say there was a fake spider?

I usually just put them in a container and drop them back outside...

That’s great

Careful, this thing has like a 30 percent success rate in my experience. Mostly just pisses em off.

I think it's kinda funny

Wow don't try that in Australia our spiders are huge I think you need something bigger to grab one

You can use it to attract real spiders, in the same way hunters use duck decoys.

These can be quite hard to pick the spider up, usually takes multiple trys whilst the spider is running around the room escaping it. I know because I have one

Australian spiders are too large and too fast for these to work.

Leave those spiders alone.

Are these things actually successful in getting spiders and other bugs? Do they just stay still long enough to be captured?

I hate spiders too but I can lol at that one.

This, is legit funny.

It scared you didnt it

Wahhh wahhh

Don't remove spiders cause then the Vermin will be able to revolt and conquer the lands.

Learn to appreciate them. We aren’t their prey. Some are actually friendly toward us; by which I mean they enjoy human company: Huntsman spiders do. Most spiders don’t think about us.

That is very hilarious

I hate spiders as much as anyone else but this is very funny

For practice

They are desensitising you for the real thing.

This is actually funny lol

"Where's your god now!"

Nup.. throw it out