jumping spiders keep brown recluse spiders away

[PointlessComedy]

that was a nice strike by the jumping spider at 0:43

[NannersFoundMySoup]

i did not know nicholas cage liked spiders

[whiteyr44]

Haha this is awesome!

I keep two of these guys P.otiosus as pets, great spiders.

[bdhutier]

They eat the crap out of black widows too!

[wheelori814]

when i get bit by those little jumping spiders i actually get sick, feel almost flu like.

[N33DL3R]

Both the daddy longlegs spider and jumping spider will also eat brown recluses.

[AnotherSchmoe]

I've got a set of kids staying at the house with me and I showed one of them a jumping spider in the carport yesterday and the little idiot smashed it before I could stop him. Worse yet is I DO have a brown recluse problem. Found one last night and one today, in the house. Never had any in 8 years of living here until just recently......... Not amused.

[AnotherSchmoe]

*until those kids moved in I should say. Hmm. I love them but brown recluses are a big no-no.

[Raaszhecku]

Awwwww :D

[WarrenNils]

......" Well, if you like this sort of thing, come on over to the ....." That was the funniest part ...all seriouse and stuff. Funny ;-)

[jlq74]

Dude is a weirdo. Spider Porn

[davadhyll]

I'm in West Virginia and when we have a couple of mild winters the recluses can become a real problem. An old timer once told me the answer was to keep a few big wolf spiders around. We've been doing so for about 7 years now, in 3 different houses and I havn't seen a recluse in the house since. It's a little creepy at first (the one we seen most often is about the size of my hand) but you get used to it. Not sure if they are outcompeting or massacreing the recluses but they do the trick. :)

[davadhyll]

@davadhyll PS- The old guy's older tip was to keep a black snake in every building (including your house) to ward of copperheads in a similar way. Fortunately our neighbors have about 70 half feral cats so I havn't had to test that one out. =)

[AnotherSchmoe]

@davadhyll

Yeah I know what you mean. Spiders don't scare me when I'm aware of them (aside from brown recluses and black widows) but when they pop out and surprise you it's scary as all heck. Still, I'd rather be scared by a wolf spider or a jumping spider in the house than bitten by a brown recluse. I have seen 2 recluses in my home in the last 2 days (never really noticed any before in 8 years of living here) and it's got me a little bit worried.

[LuvMyBirdies]

Bam! Bam! Bam! Chomp! lol

[DarkGoddess666]

oh crap I just killed a jumping spider not long ago

-tries to go revive it- O_O

[ugc]

Press 7 for Laser and Evil Laugh

[silent1983]

Hanns G HZ281 monitor ?

[Torn80cj]

I have been doing this myself, but I actually caught some phidippus audax jumpers and released a couple of them in my home a few months ago to control my relcluse population, and they really do a good job. I didn't see anymore recluses, so I let those 2 jumpers back in the wild since they were getting old. 4 or 5 days later a male recluse is crawling on my neck, so I decided to get some more jumpers to turn loose in my home. I don't like pesticides, especially since I have jumpers as pets.

[LuvMyBirdies]

funniest thing I've seen in awhile!

[kristelledecker]

Man, now I feel bad that my cats kill these things in my house all the time. :( They seem pretty harmless to me. I wonder if they are venomous? I see these jumping spiders all the time but never brown recluses in my house, so your theory seems correct.

[SpaceMel00]

he's a little too enthusiastic. The soothing music at the end helped me calm down.

[shootshoot]

Brown recluse spiders aren't aggressive, and should they bite for some defensive reason, it's usually harmless

[fibrillatorD]

TIL cats are as dumb as spiders.

[tjack12]

Paul, this is great. I've watched it a dozen times and still laugh. Much funnier than your RMH videos, you should work on those ;p

[KingRyltar]

i hear that man! I was bite on the back of my left shoulder while sleeping in airborne school at Ft. Benning back in the day. Left half a ping pong ball sized welt for weeks. I have a bunch of different spider varieties here in my new home and check the internet out before putting any of them to sleep.

Had to educate the new father in law on Preying Mantis, LOL.

Keep up the info!

[thesdsalim]

CHOWMP HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[cantecleer]

-- spiders rule. As long as they aren't brown recluses or black widows, I leave them alone and am happy for every bug they kills (and, like you said, that they help keep the unwanted spider populations in check). BAM! =D

[AnotherSchmoe]

@cantecleer

Same here. If it's not a brown recluse or black widow I don't bother it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Sure any spider can give me a good scare if I'm not expecting to see them but it beats being bitten by a recluse or widow. I usually don't even kill spiders in the house (though I will take them outside). But any black widows or anything resembling a brown recluse gets smashed.

[thund3rfingers]

you sound so evil

[PistonHonda319]

1:13 1:25

[damian9070]

Amazing, 3d game steering spiders.

[Molhedim]

That spider must to thing " fuking god damn it ...this prey doesnt want to die " hardest kill for that spider evar.

[joulesbeef]

I'm not sure how i got here but I am glad i came.

[2theAJ]

and come to reddit.com to learn how to burn those motherfuckers

[skrizach]

bam bam bam CHOMP

[eXGee11]

Paul, thank you. Watched this video with my morning coffee and it really set the days mood.

[THUGOONIE]

Good to know that some jumping spiders are safe,I leave all the daddy long legs, but those jumping spiders always scare the crap out of me, feel like their watching me and waiting to attack. theres also one thats black with a red butt, not a black widow but super fast and scary. uuugh.

[michelXShawn]

haha i love this :D

[damienknight]

bam, what are you on?

[2Bibleppl]

I was bitten by a brown recluse on my second toe and the skin died and I kept a knot for over two years.

[2Bibleppl]

Hahahahahaahahahahahaha, oh you have to stop, my ribs hurt. ROFL, hehehehehehe, bam, chomp :-D hahahaha. XD

[RonRay]

Haha! A spider watching (and trying to eat) a video... I've seen it all now!  :o)

Thanks Paul.

[hezekiahb]

Be warned, as helpful as these little guys are if they grow to much in numbers they run out of bug food sources & start eating you in your sleep. We had an infestation of these things one year, started waking up with what looked like mosquito bites but all over almost like a mild rash. Ended up finding out that the jumping spiders were biting us in our sleep. Harmless, but very annoying.

[bdmenne]

i love jumping spiders. They are cute. And this is coming from a guy who has a phobia of spiders. Don't know why, but I think jumping spiders have something more akin to a personality than the rest. I think so because it keeps moving, like a miniature robot, its tiny, it jumps like a kangaroo and it has big intelligent eyes to sense friend or foe. Okay, stretching with that last posit. :)

[speedbmp]

So THIS is what you do with your spare time. XD

[romancwriter2]

what about the big black furry ones with orange and white spots? They are aggressive and will not back away. But they're so pretty. I don't like to kill anything but confess to a tendency to squash black widows as we have lots here in the high desert.

[Torn80cj]

@romancwriter2 Those spiders are actually not being aggressive, they are highly curious. I handle them all the time. I can quickly catch one and it will not attack or bite me. I prefer to let them crawl up my hand voluntarily, that way they won't be as skittish. They look at you because they are curious, checking to see if you're a possible threat or even something to perch on to give them a better vantage point. Some of them enjoy walking on me, but some hop off of me like I'm hot as coals.

[stupidguyx]

@Torn80cj I knew a girl in elementary school who caught jumping spiders. She'd just hold them. I thought it was cool, even if I wouldn't do it.

I try to let daddy long legs and jumping spiders live. Garden spiders too, as long as they're not on me. It's the damned fat-bodied, long-legged ones that must die.

[Torn80cj]

@stupidguyx She must have had a parent who handled them and she learned the nature of jumping spiders. They are easy to handle once you learn how to handle them.

[romancwriter2]

way way too funny. it should be illegal to make a person laugh like this. my gut hurts. I need some dandelion juice.

[masn1978]

That was really funny.

[pac3lli]

HAH !!!!  Funny and educational. This needs to go viral.

[anyonefindAMERICA1]

Love the ending. Did you have any treatment for the recluse bite? What was it. I like spiders an AWFUL lot. Except the kind that make your flesh rot off. Yeeesshhh!

[cdltpx]

Dad use to catch geckos and relaese them in the house they went to work instantly eating any spiders or roaches those little dudes are awesome hunters too. They have wonderful appetite too.

[muddymuddymuddmann]

THAT WAS HILARIOUS! I'VE BEEN BIT BY THE FIDDLEBACK SPIDERS 2 TIMES. I THINK I LIKE THE BROWN SPIDERS BETTER. NICE GIMMICK ON THE DEMONSTRATION.

MUDDy

[glockman1727ak47]

LOL I like the end!

[glockman1727ak47]

LOL



[hunt1803]

We were having dinner outdoors a couple summers ago and a particular pesky fly kept buzzing our plates on the table. All of a sudden a very large jumping spider fairly flew out of the workings of the umbrella, grabbed that fly in midair, and drug it back into the umbrella tube to have dinner.

I will leave the jumpers alone outside; between them & banties they keep the hobo spider population down. But any spider I find inside my house gets an orange essential oil spritz.

[SuzyB1988]

Very cute. The permacultural approach to a brown recluse-free household

[julzbo]

Hahahaha!! Thanks for the laugh! Informative, too.

[MissCindelLee]

LoL, sorta pounces just like when I wiggle something in front of one of my kitty's!  ;*)

[poppopscarvinshop]

Thank You!

Namaste'

[greyhoundfriend123]

Thanks for the info it gives me more reason to let the harmless (however gross) spiders live in order to crowd out the brown recluse. And did you know the jumping spider would attack the cursor or was that spontaneous? Whichever it was amazing.

[paulwheaton12]

@greyhoundfriend123 He just wandered onto the screen. And then I thought his movement was based on my mouse action, so then I started to temp him.

[budzin303]

@paulwheaton12 you have a super villans laugh

[MustangGTR2]

@paulwheaton12 jumping spider and longlegs eat recluse ??

[makeupklutz]

LOL!  Bamn Bamn Chomp! :)

[zopi9]

I have a lot of these guys in my house. They're fun to watch and don't run away - always ready for a challenge. Here's something you might like -

[carltonhobbs]

Very funny, my wife was cracking up. However, even if you use MS Windows, you might take the sticker off your monitor so people don't know you're using the monoculture software equivalent of Monsanto.

[vention4wh]

Ya! Jumping spiders live in my deck garden planters.

[theeastwatch]

oh man your wife must be sooooo happy. stick a spider in front of you and you'll stay entertained for hours! :)

-TEW