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
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 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
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
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."
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.)
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.
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!"
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.
@@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 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!
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’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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
• 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. 😒
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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 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
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. :(
sparrows! those smart little buggers build nests anywhere. f.e. between 2 floors of a building. heating from above, heating from bellow, lot of room and whatnot. they also pick dead insects from the windshields of freshly arrived trains. and when not, they just fly to the nearby diners and beg for food by being cute and brave. they are not invasive in Europe, so it is easy to love them here
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.
[Tasmania] we have a species of very small ant here (the white-footed ant - Technomyrmex jocosus), which is notorious for "invading" homes - basically impossible to 'ant-proof' for them. Cellar spiders ('daddy long-legs' - Pholcus phalangioides) predate them (presumably some other minor pests too) with some effectiveness.
I'm fine with the spiders in my garage and basement. I don't hurt the spiders who live outside, but if any spiders enter my actual living space, they'll die immediately.
7:33 these moths don't eat your clothes because that is their diet, instead they have figured out a correlation between humans wearing sweaters and the indoor heating being turned down or off. :p
House spiders are the real mvps. We should definitely treat them better, tell them how much we appreciate them, maybe bring them an insect as sacrifice from time to time. On a totally unrelated note, I'm definitely a human. Spiders can't write.
I intentionally let the wolf spiders stay in my home. They eat other spiders, including brown recluse and black widows. So, I prefer to let the wolf spiders stay. Though, my cats disagree, so the wolf spiders usually don't get to stay for very long.
