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    76 months ago

    I always worry that the spiders I leave alive will have ten million spider babies. Is that not a concern for any of you?

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        86 months ago

        Not sure why someone would downvote you for this. Spiders are territorial and will cannibalize each other if they’re unable to spread far enough apart. They’ll never reach the insane population densities of social insects like ants or termites.

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          6 months ago

          I like to think of myself as a big spider in a room with small spiders.
          They get the edges and corners and I get the center.

          Occasionally, I go around clearing the old webs, so that new spiders can come and make new webs and catch some mosquitoes.
          If a spider invades my bed/kitchen/computer, I get rid of it.


          Ants are pretty annoying, but are useful too.
          They let me know if I dropped some foodstuff and didn’t clean it properly, by banding around it.
          So I can just go and clean it and the ants stop coming.