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Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Sleep tight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

But the spiders is Australia are worse right? Thats how I justify sleeping at night. Tell me its true.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

Not entirely accurate, there are some save zones in North- an West Alaska.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Why limit it to the US? Dolomedes is international.

Also yes I will sleep tight, knowing these adorable and accomplished spiders are out there living their best lives.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What does red mean?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Red is land, white represents where the spiders are.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We've lost Canada and Mexico to the spiders already...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This comment is full of spiders. Using darkmode just hides them in the dark

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

But how do they fish on land?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Obviously this blue part here is the land...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Spider.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That would be very disheartening if I lived in America

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

these days it doesn't even make the top 10 list of disturbing things for people living in America

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They are in many countries. But they are not scary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

there's the slight alleviating factor of most people not living in lakes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

....and with closed mouth