For a man who is terrified of bugs, Jordan really seems unable to help himself from looking up facts that make him more terrified. It's almost like an addiction.
I lived in Australia for about one and a half years. My favorite involuntary pet was a Huntsman Spider. I woke up one morning with it sitting on my bedpost and just decided to leave it there. It kept my room clean of any insects, other spiders and once, I swear, it killed a baby snake. We made a deal: A place to stay in exchange for pest control. We became best buddies.
So as a American with baby spiders and not real threatening insects, I have a question….how do y’all stay so calm over there??? cause I’ve noticed you guys just shrug off your Godzilla sized insects
Gotta a question, on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being pissing yourself laughing, how hard do you aussies laugh at tourists with arachnophobia reacting to any of your not-so little monsters?
For the australia one, my boyfriend is actually australian and visited the States and yes, he calls the bugs tiny and friends. They do not think of anything of them at all
We have really tiny and highly venomous spiders here called redback spiders here in Australia (like black widows, in fact I think they're in the same family). They're nasty, a hell of a lot worse than huntsmen who are very chill and sweet. Funnel Web Spiders are pretty bad too, but they don't tend to come inside the house like huntsmen, they prefer the garden.
@@ErizeddRedbacks are Latrodectus, correct. Same genus as widows. Fun fact: Latrodectus can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Very widespread.
@@fizzyb0mbneat. I was researching the Draco genus to categorize different species of dragon in a novel I'm working on. I settled on Draco Potens. (I don't know how to do italics on youtube mobile...)
Not only is it his coping mechanism, what he doesn't tell you is it also repels bugs. The only reason he doesn't tell you is because he doesn't want the bugs to become desensitized to it via overexposure.
I once had a jumping spider on my back patio. He did absolutely no harm, and just wandered around the patio eating bugs. I actually got kind of attached to him, and he got fairly big feasting on the bugs that were attracted to the patio light. I felt like I had an agreement with him. He ate the bugs I don't like, and I left him alone. He was actually kind of cute. They're very smart, inquisitive, fuzzy, and have no interest in biting humans. Fun fact: People keep jumpers as pets and build beautiful enclosures for them. Look it up. One guy taught his jumper to do high fives.
We have a rule in my house. If the spider is somewhere where it won't bother us, we leave it alone. This counts for outside and in the basement. Though the basement ruling is only if they aren't somewhere we need to be, like by the washer/dryer.
Had one jump on my face right on my nose. Didn't kill it because I got to see it's cute little face. I let it crawl onto my finger and then placed it on the wall.
But honestly, huntsmen are really chill spiders. They're like the dogs of the spider world: old dogs if you're calm (they're calm), puppies if you freak out (they freak out too). They're lovely though!
@@Wolfer13579 Well, I live rurally and they're only really a potential problem when the weather gets very hot. You do need to be a bit careful where you walk and be sure to make a bit of noise too, specifically when walking in nature, and in warm sunny spots where they like to bask, but even the venomous snakes will slither away if they hear or see you coming, and providing you give them the space to do so. It's fine, honestly - we have red-bellied black snakes (shy and skittish) and eastern brown snakes (second most venomous snake in the world and not shy at all) where I live, but both will slither away if you make it clear that you're there. :)
@@Erizedd yeah one time an eastern brown came into the shed on our farm and mum talked to it and it just left 😂 A story I heard from my dad regarding red bellies: when he was a teenager he saw a stick on the ground and decided to kick it. Then afterwards the stick slithered away Also I love huntsmen so much - the dog of the spider world is such a good description of them. I had one walk into the kitchen while I was baking as if it were a toddler about to ask a bunch of ‘why’ questions. They really are fine, my mum has picked up some of the baby ones by hand. One time a baby she picked up refused to leave the house so she just brought it back inside and left it. But she won’t pick up the redbacks or ones related to them simply because their bite is annoying
I get squirmy in my body just looking at what Jordan is showing me. Do not like the S (pider) word or the H (ornet) word or the A (nt) word, etc. Squirmy dance...good gawd...run !!!
I just thought it was funny to see his body react naturally to something he doesn't like. I specialize mostly with animal behavior cases so it's fun to read body language, seeing him do his little dance is like reading a comic strip of his fear, anxiety and neurosis.
It’s not that bad, It’s not all that common of an occurrence to get spiders that big inside, Though You do get used to having smaller spiders Everywhere
I still always die at "feet, when you gotta buy that spider socks and shoes" those spiders are really cool honestly. Definitely a shock when you come around a corner on one though lol
I thought it was fake until I found out it was a huntsman spider so I want to know how people like those spiders cause they're made to take over the world
I had two brown recluse spiders land on MY FACE when I was sitting below a vent during a party at my house. I wanted to DIE. Jordan, I absolutely feel you.
You know when a huntsman is big, it's when you walk into a room and you can hear it making scratching noises behind you when it's walking across the wall.
Fun fact about the Australian Outback! If you go outside at night, and shine your flashlight on the ground, there is a chance that you’ll see a “Pile of Glitter” on the ground. If you approach said pile of glitter, you will discover that the “glitter” is actually the reflection of the eyes of many, many Huntsman Spiders.
Fun fact, Irish spring soap also works if you want to keep rodents and deer out of your gardens. Just grate the soap and sprinkle it around your plants
😂 "The Dance"😂 But my FAVORITE of all of his videos is "COME HERE" and "CUZ NO" I always wanna step forward, like I forget that I'm actually watching a video 😊 Thank you for making me smile!!
It is worth watching disgusting bugs to see Jordan's moves. Basically, Jordan says to leave any house with bugs. Across the world, there are empty houses with families of bugs owning them, living it up, and laughing at humans.
I've said it before with that spider at 4:08 You don't just squash that spider, you get out the .22lr or .22 Magnum and some good hollow points. That isn't a "pest" that's squirrel-sized problem, that requires a squirrel-sized solution... shooting it.... *a lot*
For those who are trying to repel spiders and/or insects from your house; You need to know what species you’re trying to shoo away because different critters are repelled by different scents and some scents that repel one type of bug will attract another.
If you just randomly kill a bugs nest, the Bugs Lives Matters movement is going to come back and mess up your place twice as bad as they originally did if left unchecked
They're honestly not that bad, and you'd be safe, don't worry. Some people who come here are actually disappointed if they don't see a spider or snake at some point during their visit - probably because they were mostly in the cities and there's not many there in comparison, but even in rural areas it's nothing crazy.
@@Erizeddyeah i visited australia and traveled from daintree to ningaloo and mostly through the less-inhabited areas but didnt see many spiders and only one snake. Its pretty normal compared to north america except for the venom
Fun fact, though, Jordan, and this is something to keep in mind: You're almost never more than 8 feet away from a spider at any time. And if you do find somewhere, where there are no spiders, RUN. There's a reason they're not there and it's definitely more dangerous to you than they are.
and to think over here in oklahoma the biggest spiders we have are wolf spiders and everytime i see one it make me want to scream they are so big and fast and if they catch me off guard i just cant
I once had a wolf spider on my leg I smacked it off my legs, screamed like a girl, and ran to a different room. Don’t know where the spider went. Also I love the bug fear dance you do before talking about a bug
00:41 Many years ago, I worked for an exterminating company. This image reminded me of a kitchen I treated for a first time customer. When I sprayed behind the stove, so many roaches came out that I instinctively jumped back. I've never seen that many roaches in one place in my life.
I worked at a Popeyes back in the late 90s. We kept seeing roaches around the place, so my boss sent me to the store for some bug bombs. The amount of roaches we saw once we set them off is something that will be burned into my memory for life. Just crawling everywhere. Roaches suck and I hate them. That Popeyes is no longer there, btw.
Earwigs are Santa Claus? (He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, you'd better watch out for him; wear ear plugs, for goodness sake!)
Huntsman spiders are great to have around your house, they eat a lot of the really dangerous stuff like red-back spiders...fully understandable for people to be freaked out about em cause of their size, they're the only ones I really put outside instead of deleting from the census if I find em inside tho
I was driving across the midwest last month. Ran into thousands of web gliding spiders. An hour later. I hit a baseball sized hail storm. eventually One of them bit my foot multiple times. Didnt even feel any of the bites. But those fangs took some chunks out on each bite. Took a week to feel better.
17:58 I did not notice that bug i thought it was a fruit or veg . This man right here gives the best facials . He truly makes me laugh. Keep up the good work.
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen is someone having a stick creature thrown on them and they were just running around “GET IT OFF!!!!!!!!!! GET IT OFF!!!!!!!! And everyone was pissing themselves laughing
