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the yellow orb weavers on my sugar snap peas just get out of my way during harvests. They're good for your plants, just shake a branch and give them a few seconds to hide before you go reaching in.
FWIW, spiders like the one in the video are generally harmless to humans, but absolute assassins to anything that may harm your plants or burger you in the backyard. I'm always happy to see an orb weaver or a grass spider. Just not on my hand.
Haha I had to watch it again with sound.
How bad can it b..."dhejfjxjbswjkwowis!!! ITS A SPIDER!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! IT WAS SO BIG!! HOLY MOLY WTF WAS THAT!! OMG JESUS..." *kid starts crying*
Oh for real. I remember looking at a stag beetle and being surprised when it lift off - I had no idea those things could fly. Sounded like an apache helicopter. I ran like hell.
I had a moth fly by ear once at my old apartment l, sounded like a helicopter as well🤣🤣🤣shit tripped me out lol I was like wtf was that? Then it landed on the window seal and it was one of the ugliest insects I've ever seen💀
It spawns at the 2 second mark at what is the left corner of the black container (as it nearly touches the ground) and then falls into the dirt (right next to the wood) once everyone backs up at about 7 seconds. It had plenty of time to crawl up the boy’s arm but opted out.
My mother is absolutely afraid of spiders. How do I know? She told me when I became an adult. Not once did she show any negative reaction towards them when I was a kid. Why? Because she didn't want us to inherit her irrational fear. That's what parenting is about. Being strong to give your child a good life.
I have absolutely no fear of spiders thanks to my mother being strong. My mom is the best.
My parents were completely unphased by spiders, but I still have a fear of them. I'm not entirely convinced that having strong parental reactions determines outcome of phobias. Sounds like a cool mum though!
it doesn't necessarily mean you will have only the phobias your parents have, just that their phobias can be "inherited" by you from seeing them react. same way you are more likely to be a smoker if your parents smoke, but it wont make you immune to becoming a smoker if your parents arent
It can be a factor, but this is really the Nature vs Nurture thing. As a kid I wasn't too bothered by bugs and the like. My mom didn't like them and would often call on me to remove june bugs from the house, among other things. These days bugs and spiders give me the heebie jeebies.
I don't know exactly what did it... but I think it was something to do with seeing them up close and personal in media I consumed as a kid/teen. The Spongebob butterfly scene comes to mind, and the canyon scene from the Peter Jackson King Kong come to mind lol. I think I first watched The Fly somewhere in that time range, too.
For me it’s locational. An insect inside a house, like a cockroach, spider, etc fucks with me. But I’ve hiked a lot and when I’m outside and have ants, spiders, etc on me I remain pretty chill with them. Even when they’re on me I’ll just brush em off. Wasps can suck my dick, any time, anywhere however. Fuck em. I will never approach a nest under any circumstance.
For me, it's shoes. If I have shoes on, I'm good, no fear. Spotting a large spood while barefoot makes my toes curl.
Probably from having to spray hobos down the drain every morning before stepping in the shower. Always had to keep one eye on the drain, in case they crawled out again.
And that one time I had to use hair spray on a spood who aggressively stood his ground at the bathroom door, trapping me in just a towel.
Meanwhile my mom would make the whole house shake with her screaming, then me and my siblings would go to investigate and see her on top of the kitchen counter screaming at a tiny mouse she saw
Parenting may be about that but becoming an adult is realizing that parents aren't ever going to be perfect.
If the worst thing you do to your kids is fail to keep your composure when you see a spider spider about the place then you've done a tremendously good job.
As for inherited phobias I don't really doubt that this kinda stuff can be a factor, but I grew up around a bunch of evil skittish fucks and I didn't inherit shit insofar as phobias and other weirdness goes.
I have a phobia because one time when I was a very little kid one fell in the bath
Sometimes you do your best as a parent and it doesn't even matter haha
So I don't have phobia in the sense I can look at spiders and actually like those small house spiders.
But man the moment I saw a colony of spiders half the size of that one in the video, it's just scary when they are big.
Or really. I have a phobia because multiple times as a child I woke up with them in my bed. My parents never reacted like I do to them now.
Also, if I I didn’t have a phobia, I would be able to not react. But I have one… so it’s hard not to 😅. Don’t misunderstand though, I’ve worked hard on it, but still there are situations where I legitimately have a visceral reaction, hence it being a phobia and all.
That said, my mom had a phobia of mice and rats. I never did. And my teenager doesn’t have a phobia of spiders or mice or anything living. So there’s that too
Two days ago I found a GIANT black widow on my mailbox post. I grabbed a can of spider killer and told my wife about it. She came out to see it. Saw it. Wanted to take a pic. Took a pic, couldn’t find the spider in the picture. I start looking at where the spider was and it’s just gone. No idea where it went but it did leave a cluster of eggs (I think) behind. I doused the entire mailbox post in spider killer but still don’t know where it went. Legitimately biggest black widow I’ve ever seen.
They have an uncanny ability to know when you don't want them to move. Staring at a a giant spider in your shower for 2 mins after you realize its there and you're paralyzed about what the hell to do. Turn around for 0.5 seconds to grab a soap bottle to smash it..... gone. It's now at your feet.
Omg i remember my first very close encounter with a huntsman when a first arrived a couple decades ago, about that size, and it scared the shit out me. A tradie at the gas station (because of course that close encounter was on the sun visor while driving ) just laughed and said “just a huntsman mate”.
I’ve got spider twice this size in my garden. I have to keep my daughters from petting them. Explain it keeps the snakes’ at bay.
To be fair to you, huntsman in the car is the worst place to encounter one. I had big one crawl across my windscreen while driving at night and I couldn’t tell if it was inside or outside the car. Luckily I turned on my wipers in hope it was outside, and it got flicked off!
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I thought the video was funny everyone in this comment section is coming to puff up their chests with their supreme parenting knowledge especially when dealing with spiders. Somehow I get a feeling few have kids lol
I didn't see anything the first time and no audio didn't help either. So I turned the audio on and brought my phone super close to my face.....
Let's just say I'm lucky my phone's screen is still in one piece.
Yeah, imagine someone completly oppresing a phobia *in any situation whatsoever*... oh wait, most people can't do that.
Are we really judging an entire parenthood/family relationship based on a fucking video of someone getting scared of a spider? You guys are ridiculous.
“Holy moley…” thought she’d saved it in front of the kids, but no… it was “holy moley, what the fuck was that!” 🤣. Next time just go straight for “what fucking hell was that big hair cunt of a spider doing climbing up your bastard arm!”
I mean it doesn't matter how much you think you know how that spider might not hurt you, how the rat/mouse is running away, how that snake is just chilling folk's lizard brain just goes OMG! Usually more like OMG WTF!
That was always happening to me with my grow bags; spiders and centipedes love posting up under those things.
I keep them off the ground now with some lattice I built out of 1X1 to avoid that scary shit, haha. They drain better too.
She sounds just like the Deku Link scream from Majora's mask.
Might want to turn down you sound a bit.
https://youtu.be/D1NvM7clAdE?si=BxQ10XQJnAMyd7mc
As someone how has been moving around a bunch of brush and mulch lately, I've had my fair share of jump scares from big grass spiders, but nothing like this. Very disappointed I watched this because now anytime I feel something on my skin I'm going think it's one of these big boys.
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Im genuinely impressed how fast it just seems to disappear, watched the video over and over and i lose track soon as it reaches the top.
If you watch closely, it never goes out of the wood box, I’ll send you a picture
At first I was thinking that dark spot on his shorts pants leg was the spider and he missed seeing it ☠️⚰️👼
Yeah I always thought that too, if you slow down the video it drops onto the dirt and it’s only on his hand for half a sec
I would love to plant vegetables but spiders like these would make me instantly regret it and hate my apartment/house oof
the yellow orb weavers on my sugar snap peas just get out of my way during harvests. They're good for your plants, just shake a branch and give them a few seconds to hide before you go reaching in.
FWIW, spiders like the one in the video are generally harmless to humans, but absolute assassins to anything that may harm your plants or burger you in the backyard. I'm always happy to see an orb weaver or a grass spider. Just not on my hand.
It's not harmless if it gives me a heart attack. I *will* die and it will be directly because of that spider. I'd call that harmful, not harmless.
You're stronger than you think you are.
Spider: Hey kid you’re planting it upside dow- Mom: HOLY MOLY WTF IS THAT Spider: Wow, rude. (vanishes)
So definitely didn’t crawl up the kids sleeve?
It's in his ear... waiting... menacingly...
Or taking control like in Star Trek II.
Love how she went from Instagram Mum of the Year to swearing like a sailor.
How she tried to correct herself too but instantly failed.. “Holy Moly what the FUCK”
Haha I had to watch it again with sound. How bad can it b..."dhejfjxjbswjkwowis!!! ITS A SPIDER!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! IT WAS SO BIG!! HOLY MOLY WTF WAS THAT!! OMG JESUS..." *kid starts crying*
lol how to traumatize your kid over spiders for life
I wish parents would be more careful about not passing their own irrational fears and insecurities on to the next generation.
Hah! Totally worth it, thanks.
Poor little mite just wanted a cuddle, instead he got scared back into the spud sack.
I can relate 
haha I caught the moly, but not the subsequent fuck. just great
Spiders would be great psychologists. Our social mask comes right off.
I’d be too scared to go
I'm not really afraid of spiders I'm more afraid of Junebugs and beetles🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀spiders ain't shit but let a beetle fly towards you😭🏃🏃🏃
Oh for real. I remember looking at a stag beetle and being surprised when it lift off - I had no idea those things could fly. Sounded like an apache helicopter. I ran like hell.
I had a moth fly by ear once at my old apartment l, sounded like a helicopter as well🤣🤣🤣shit tripped me out lol I was like wtf was that? Then it landed on the window seal and it was one of the ugliest insects I've ever seen💀
Samwise Gamgee to Eric Cartman
Sting is coming out!
And backed away to let the spider eat her kid.
Lmao and she ditched the kids She was whole ass finna leave them behind
Aaaand now those kids have a spider phobia.
Strong [Stan energy](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ea6025a9-fd2e-457b-b6c1-19ec83290f83)
The mask came off.
>Love how she went from Instagram Mum of the Year to abandoning her kids because she was afraid
There's a spider spider spider... Deep in my soul soul...
We spitting?
We're starting the spitting now
He's lived there for years, years He just won't let go
He’s laying around He’s got a mean bite
Now he’s ready to FIIIIIIIIIIIGHT
And stand up for what he KNOOOOOOOOOWS
I don't want your trophies or your gold I just wanna tell you all
Go f*#k yourselves!
Woooaaaahhhhhoooohhhh go f&#k yourselves!
Fuck you motherfuckers I don’t need you in my bar
Go fuck yourself
Go fuck your sellllllllllf!
Go fuck yourselves!
He's laying around.... He's got a mean bite. Now he's ready to fight... and stand up for what he knows.
It spawns at the 2 second mark at what is the left corner of the black container (as it nearly touches the ground) and then falls into the dirt (right next to the wood) once everyone backs up at about 7 seconds. It had plenty of time to crawl up the boy’s arm but opted out.
is it like a hidden quest? does it always spawn?
you have to have Wirts leg in your inventory
so she said holy MOOly?
Thank you, I couldn't find wtf they were scared of.
How could you miss it, that fucker was huge.
“Oh golly gee whizz fucking ass hell!”
I love the “Holy moly, what the fuck!”. Tried to stay PG, but couldn’t contain her true self.
When parenting response and fear response collide
Mixing swear levels is peak!
But what about the potatoes? Were there any, did any grow? You can't leave us hanging like that!!
Good job! /s That's how phobias begin.
My mother is absolutely afraid of spiders. How do I know? She told me when I became an adult. Not once did she show any negative reaction towards them when I was a kid. Why? Because she didn't want us to inherit her irrational fear. That's what parenting is about. Being strong to give your child a good life. I have absolutely no fear of spiders thanks to my mother being strong. My mom is the best.
My parents were completely unphased by spiders, but I still have a fear of them. I'm not entirely convinced that having strong parental reactions determines outcome of phobias. Sounds like a cool mum though!
it doesn't necessarily mean you will have only the phobias your parents have, just that their phobias can be "inherited" by you from seeing them react. same way you are more likely to be a smoker if your parents smoke, but it wont make you immune to becoming a smoker if your parents arent
It can be a factor, but this is really the Nature vs Nurture thing. As a kid I wasn't too bothered by bugs and the like. My mom didn't like them and would often call on me to remove june bugs from the house, among other things. These days bugs and spiders give me the heebie jeebies. I don't know exactly what did it... but I think it was something to do with seeing them up close and personal in media I consumed as a kid/teen. The Spongebob butterfly scene comes to mind, and the canyon scene from the Peter Jackson King Kong come to mind lol. I think I first watched The Fly somewhere in that time range, too.
For me it’s locational. An insect inside a house, like a cockroach, spider, etc fucks with me. But I’ve hiked a lot and when I’m outside and have ants, spiders, etc on me I remain pretty chill with them. Even when they’re on me I’ll just brush em off. Wasps can suck my dick, any time, anywhere however. Fuck em. I will never approach a nest under any circumstance.
For me, it's shoes. If I have shoes on, I'm good, no fear. Spotting a large spood while barefoot makes my toes curl. Probably from having to spray hobos down the drain every morning before stepping in the shower. Always had to keep one eye on the drain, in case they crawled out again. And that one time I had to use hair spray on a spood who aggressively stood his ground at the bathroom door, trapping me in just a towel.
Meanwhile my mom would make the whole house shake with her screaming, then me and my siblings would go to investigate and see her on top of the kitchen counter screaming at a tiny mouse she saw
Parenting may be about that but becoming an adult is realizing that parents aren't ever going to be perfect. If the worst thing you do to your kids is fail to keep your composure when you see a spider spider about the place then you've done a tremendously good job. As for inherited phobias I don't really doubt that this kinda stuff can be a factor, but I grew up around a bunch of evil skittish fucks and I didn't inherit shit insofar as phobias and other weirdness goes.
I feel sorry for my kids, they will be racist, homophobic, katsaridaphobic, road rage fucks... Need to keep the genes going somehow...
Absolutely borgeous
I have a phobia because one time when I was a very little kid one fell in the bath Sometimes you do your best as a parent and it doesn't even matter haha
I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.
You don't live as long as I have without a healthy fear of snakes. -Creed (The Office)
Lol for real: core fear unlocked
So I don't have phobia in the sense I can look at spiders and actually like those small house spiders. But man the moment I saw a colony of spiders half the size of that one in the video, it's just scary when they are big.
Parents are people
Right? I was like... So people who show fear are bad parents... or failed at parenting. *Great*
Or really. I have a phobia because multiple times as a child I woke up with them in my bed. My parents never reacted like I do to them now. Also, if I I didn’t have a phobia, I would be able to not react. But I have one… so it’s hard not to 😅. Don’t misunderstand though, I’ve worked hard on it, but still there are situations where I legitimately have a visceral reaction, hence it being a phobia and all. That said, my mom had a phobia of mice and rats. I never did. And my teenager doesn’t have a phobia of spiders or mice or anything living. So there’s that too
And that’s how someone with a phobia reacts…
can’t be helped though, was an unconscious reaction
Nah, my wife is just like that and the kids love all the bugs and snakes. We just laugh at her.
The little girl started crying at the end. She just developed the phobia 100% from her mother's reaction
There's absolutely no guarantee of that, children cry about a ton of things growing up and far from everything they cry about inflict lasting damage.
That vibrato
You say potato, I say HOLY MOLY WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT
I feel bad for the small girl, she doesn't even know what's happening and starts crying because of mom's hysterical reaction.
Two days ago I found a GIANT black widow on my mailbox post. I grabbed a can of spider killer and told my wife about it. She came out to see it. Saw it. Wanted to take a pic. Took a pic, couldn’t find the spider in the picture. I start looking at where the spider was and it’s just gone. No idea where it went but it did leave a cluster of eggs (I think) behind. I doused the entire mailbox post in spider killer but still don’t know where it went. Legitimately biggest black widow I’ve ever seen.
Apparently it wasn't interested in being photographed, didn't want evidence around of their plans to outgrow us!
They have an uncanny ability to know when you don't want them to move. Staring at a a giant spider in your shower for 2 mins after you realize its there and you're paralyzed about what the hell to do. Turn around for 0.5 seconds to grab a soap bottle to smash it..... gone. It's now at your feet.
Calling in an air strike!
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Nuclear option approved
Shit some of the comments are really something. She is afraid of them, she is reacting instinctively to her fear. She's a human ffs.
To me, an Australian. That was some tiny wimpy spider
I know right, baby huntsman sized!
Omg i remember my first very close encounter with a huntsman when a first arrived a couple decades ago, about that size, and it scared the shit out me. A tradie at the gas station (because of course that close encounter was on the sun visor while driving ) just laughed and said “just a huntsman mate”. I’ve got spider twice this size in my garden. I have to keep my daughters from petting them. Explain it keeps the snakes’ at bay.
To be fair to you, huntsman in the car is the worst place to encounter one. I had big one crawl across my windscreen while driving at night and I couldn’t tell if it was inside or outside the car. Luckily I turned on my wipers in hope it was outside, and it got flicked off!
[OK](https://i.imgflip.com/8vk5rc.jpg)
When it's bigger it'd make a good pet spider for the dunny.
Agreed, took forever to see it and then.. oh, thats it 😐 wasnt even moving fast lol
Same! Also, mum just *bailed* from those kids. Could have just swept itsy bitsy away from the kiddos, damn.
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When gardening spiders should never be unexpected.
Boris, is that you?
My question is what kind if spider was that? That sheit looked like it bit Peter Parker
That mf ATE Peter Parker
Carolina wolf spider would be my guess.
Looks like a Rabidosa Rabida. Just a giant wolf spider basically but I’m no eight legged expert. I see them occasionally when working in moist areas.
Big ass wolf spider. Scary, but docile. Also not medically significant.
Well those kids just learned some new words
That is a substantial spider!
The vibrato initiating the sailor salvo 😂
I thought the video was funny everyone in this comment section is coming to puff up their chests with their supreme parenting knowledge especially when dealing with spiders. Somehow I get a feeling few have kids lol
What do you mean this was clearly a traumatic event that will leave the kids scared for life/s
As a fully grown man, id sound exactly the same as her if i saw that
Woah, language !
This is how my mom made me scared of spiders over 30 years ago. I'm a grown ass man now and I still don't like them...
Well ... That was an overreaction
I didn't see anything the first time and no audio didn't help either. So I turned the audio on and brought my phone super close to my face..... Let's just say I'm lucky my phone's screen is still in one piece.
Well done on teaching your kids to fear and react badly to spiders. ^((It) *^(was)* ^(a big ol' beast though))
I feel like it’s probably pretty difficult to have a calm reaction to a giant fucking spider if you’re scared of them.
Yes, but I'm a redditor with no kids and I'm always the personification of calmness /s
Mate good on ya, keep up the good work!
Yeah, imagine someone completly oppresing a phobia *in any situation whatsoever*... oh wait, most people can't do that. Are we really judging an entire parenthood/family relationship based on a fucking video of someone getting scared of a spider? You guys are ridiculous.
So you're saying some asshole a long time ago freaked out about a spider and now we all are and forever will be. Fuck that guy.
God forbid people have emotions lol
yeah there goes my gardening idea. shiesh!!!
I could listen to that gasp/inhale before the scream on replay😭😭😭
I literally dropped my phone
Hey, watch the language! > Holy m*ly, what the fuck
That’s why I don’t fuck around in the garden 😂
Wolf spider don't crush it ,it's covered in babies
spider thinks ah shit, "nowhere to be safe from that hoomans, aah shit why so loud, better be on my way ma'am..."
That spider was huge
that spider GYAAAAT
My mother is petrified of snakes, I used to rescue and rehome them, not all phobias come from our parents
Spiders are scary fuck you guys
Bruh, as a professional arachnophobic. It's a wolf spider, they teleport. Fire is really the only option.
Sorry, but your child has to be burnt. Not pleasant, but it’s the only way to be sure.
Understandable reaction
“Holy moley…” thought she’d saved it in front of the kids, but no… it was “holy moley, what the fuck was that!” 🤣. Next time just go straight for “what fucking hell was that big hair cunt of a spider doing climbing up your bastard arm!”
Way to pass on a fear of a harmless animal to all your kids
I mean it doesn't matter how much you think you know how that spider might not hurt you, how the rat/mouse is running away, how that snake is just chilling folk's lizard brain just goes OMG! Usually more like OMG WTF!
This is how you make your children afraid of things that they weren't afraid of before
Show us how you’d react to one of your biggest fears on the spot.
Everyone knows redditors are big tough guys, I’m sure he would have kept his cool just fine
Let’s if there are some more potatoes… Hhho walulaloolawlau fucking shit.
All my protective instincts too go out the window when large spiders are involved. Sorry kids!
Jesus get some self control girl, why would you make kid cry like that
That was the garden for so far
These spider filters get out of hand.
That was always happening to me with my grow bags; spiders and centipedes love posting up under those things. I keep them off the ground now with some lattice I built out of 1X1 to avoid that scary shit, haha. They drain better too.
No potatoes, just spider
And that's it guys , the kids learned some new words to strengthen their vocabulary
She sounds just like the Deku Link scream from Majora's mask. Might want to turn down you sound a bit. https://youtu.be/D1NvM7clAdE?si=BxQ10XQJnAMyd7mc
Never let em see you sweat, good work
Now the Devil knows her weakness.
I know it's not the point but, I really like that bed!
🎵☀️🌈Let’s see if there is some more potatoesss🌈☀️🎵
r/spiders needs to identify that bad momma
And that's why I sat away from our back garden, kids
I no longer want my own garden
Wolf Spider?
I love how her protective mother instinct kicked in. Kid asking if it got on him and she is like “I don’t know, I ran” lol.
The kid crying was immaculate timing
I jumped
I watched the video 5 times to see the potatoes, feeling disappointed
And there is nothing I can do when I realise with fright That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight
These guys love gardens but I think they’re harmless? Terrifying but harmless and I bet they help with pest too.
Excited voice mom 
HUH "turns into a siren"
As someone how has been moving around a bunch of brush and mulch lately, I've had my fair share of jump scares from big grass spiders, but nothing like this. Very disappointed I watched this because now anytime I feel something on my skin I'm going think it's one of these big boys.
Hanus! noooooooooooo 
Tbh...if she didn't scream like that... I would...😞
Save yourself and forget the kids. Lol
"Jane, you'll scare the women."
I love it hahaha
Started as wholesome and ended in chaos
Started as wholesome and ended in chaos
Spiders in the garden are good! And a big one like that would have taken care of A LOT of pests!
I love how it ends with one of the kids starting to cry. Hilarious.
Meanwhile the spider is like "Fuck holy shit, ma house!" 🤣
"Holy fucking shit, it was so big!" 
True lady of 2020
I almost threw my phone through the wall when that demon showed itself
That’s a “Nope.”
I’m not normally repulsed by spiders but I almost threw my phone lmfao just before she saw it