#arachnophobia
Did you know that the average human being swallows eight spiders per second? You’re probably swallowing one right now. You’ll thank us for the extra protein later.
why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh
You’ve never heard of The Bog?
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EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD
This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.
Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.
thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,
oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.
His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.
This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.
Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.
So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”
“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”
happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders
I want any cranberry farmers reading this to know, really truly know, that “are you cool with spiders” is not a specific enough question for this situation.
Fluffy trypophobic monster
“Jorōgumo”
Inktober Day 21 - Fuzzy
Researching photo references for this was unpleasant.
Ok I forgot I can’t upload a video to a post so here is my new friend
Yes I know my screen is very dirty…
Alice molted today! Big lady
Alice, adult female Avicularia avicularia “Pink Toe”, purchased February 2022
A decades old arachnophobia never quite leaves me
I can often brave many poisonous creatures
With a trusty cup and a wide napkin to fling them back to nature
But some will be too large even for me, too fast for my comfort
The inner ape overpowering, telling me to not risk a bite while asleep
While the logical, civil side vibrates as its pillars crumble
The stick no longer becomes a hand but now a sword
And the spider falls faster than Icarus
Yet I see its curled corpse shrivel and cast it away
How much smaller it seems in this light
How much worthier of an opponent it is
It’s a fearful creature and a terrified one
Facing off with a Goliath that stares constantly with immense size and speed
A life meant to eat thanks to a crafty mind and creative silk spinning
To thrive in darkness as both predator and prey
To be cut down by a glorified ape acting like a god