Everyone should start counting spiders

[markie]

8. I have always

loved spiders... even as a kid. That makes me an anomaly according to the article...

I found this information a time ago (maybe on DU... all good things come from DU):
interesting....
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2022/10/21/why_black_widows_bite_so_many_men_on_the_junk_857885.html

Why Black Widows Bite So Many Men on the 'Junk'
Black widow spiders... enjoy dark, low to the ground sort of places. They especially love to make their cobwebs between two objects. And so because bugs like stinky places – imagine flies, there's flies in outhouses – that it makes a great food supply, right? And to get to the stinky stuff, you got to go through the bowl. So putting your web there is excellent.

So imagine this. It's the 1950s. You're a dude. You need to go number two. You make your way out to the outhouse. You sit down, and your junk hangles there. And as it does, it hits the cobweb. And the usually non-aggressive black widow instinctually runs over and bites down on the new creature that has landed on its web.