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A Mob of Horny Tarantulas is Prowling San Francisco:
October is turning out to be a bad month to live in San Francisco. First, utilities company PG&E initiated wide-ranging Bay Area blackouts to protect against the possibility of wildfires. Now it seems the warmer weather is attracting thousands of tarantulas looking for mates, so residents will have to fight off horny spiders in the dark.
[...]"San Francisco officials are warning residents to be on the lookout for thousands of giant male spiders," according to The Wall Street Journal. "The spiders aren't dangerous to people. In fact it's the other way around."
Creepy as they may be to those who [fear] them, spiders help humans by eating thousands of bugs every year that are a threat to crops.
"If spiders disappeared, we would face famine," New York's American Museum of Natural History's Norman Platnick told Treehugger this week. "Spiders are primary controllers of insects. Without spiders, all of our crops would be consumed by those pests."
While tarantulas do eat insects, frogs and small lizards, the spiders are mostly harmless to humans. Tarantula bites are painful like bee stings, but their venom is very mild.
[...]So if you happen to come across a tarantula on the trail, or under your sheets, "fear not, don't kill them," the site[*] continues. "Know that while they may look terrifying, they're doing the good work."
[*] Mount Diablo park website.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday October 11 2019, @05:24AM (3 children)
Are there instructions on relocating them? Or on giving them little picket signs and taran-telling them where the next global warming protest is?
(Score: 5, Informative) by zocalo on Friday October 11 2019, @06:40AM (2 children)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @07:59AM
No thanks. In this instance, I am in full support of my gun-slinging brethren's right to discharge lawfully-owned firearms on their own property.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday October 12 2019, @03:54AM
Where would horny male tarantulas like to be relocated to in SF? Twitter HQ?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jasassin on Friday October 11 2019, @05:53AM (3 children)
If I woke up with a tarantula in my sheets I would shit the bed and run out the door screaming like a little sissy girl!
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @06:57AM
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @06:59AM
Sounds like an accurate response from someone in San Francisco.
(Score: 3, Funny) by inertnet on Friday October 11 2019, @11:46AM
I doubt that the spider would appreciate, or be repelled by your offering.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @06:53AM
Just imagine a hairy, horny, eight-legged Ethanol_fueled, prowling San Diego . . . oh, crap, it's real!
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday October 11 2019, @09:33AM
moon talking to undersea coral
trees handing out welfare
mystery chinese moon gel
new strange moon around saturn
now this tarantula invasion
nice for a second though to think about something other than how zionism is destroying everything good in the world.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @03:27PM
It's called pride parade. They do it every year.
(Score: 3, Informative) by HiThere on Friday October 11 2019, @05:49PM (1 child)
You don't say until the very end that this is a press release from Mt. Diablo park...which is two counties away from San Francisco, and is a PARK.
FWIW, my brothers were once trampled by a tarantula stampede, and survived without injury.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @10:17PM
Were they doing the tarantella?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @02:39AM
The person who submitted this article is conflating Mount Diablo, about 50 miles from the coastline, with San Francisco, which is too cold for tarantulas.
IE, "clickbait".
Is Soylent News trying to do an IPO or something? Just quit it.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday October 12 2019, @10:22PM
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