I feel like the interviewer wasn’t explicit about the conditions. They probably phrased it gently. “Are you alright with wolf spiders finding their way onto you?”
“Naturally”, the potential employee thinks. “Wolf spiders are amongst the least dangerous spiders. I’m fine with their occasional company.”
What they should have asked was “are you capable of tolerating dozens of heavy wolf spiders motivatedly crawling over your head, torso, and arms for hours at a time without reprieve? To become a gathering ground during their apocalypse? To be their Noah’s ark?” That is a question that provokes a sincere answer.
I love spiders. I don’t want them on my face.
Also, it seems like it should be a dedicated job to get the spiders out of the bog. If you’re out there working and you’re covered in spiders, a fair number of them are going to get squished. Nobody wants that. The spiders don’t want to hang out on your body, they want to get to dry land.
Some dollar store inflatable tubes or rafts + maybe a more grippy material would provide a nice place for the spiders and limit the amount on humans
Ok, I’d be down, I fucking love wolf spiders. Happy workers day to them, indeed.
Huntsman are nice and friendly
Why don’t they put sone long planks leading up and out of the bog for a day or so before the harvesters go in? Give the spiders a time window to migrate to the shore…
Wolf spiders are harmless, so there is hardly any incentive to invest in another solution I’d guess…
I wish they weren’t so shy though, it’s really hard to take good photos of them because they are so fast.
Yeah, no, I am not going to be anywhere near that.
Not as big as they look and less aggressive than other spiders. Possibly the spiders described in this thread are Tigrosa (like in my picture, though that one is obese).
Fun fact: Lycosidae spiders initially had the name of Tarantulas, though that name felled out of use (except on some of the originating languages) in favor of what we know as tarantulas (Theraphosidae/Myalomporhs). Mediterranean wolf spiders (Lycosa Tarantula) were called Tarantulas, as they were thought they originated from Taranto (a southern place in Italy’s boot). What did people in Taranto do when you got bit by a “Tarantula”? What every sensible person would do: Quickly gather musicians and dance fervently a Tarantella to counter the venom[1]!
You have probably heard before the music, as it was prominently featured in The Godfather’s wedding.
Side-note[1]: Wolf spiders very seldom bite humans, if they bite then often is a dry bite (without venom) and when they bite with venom it is mostly harmless to humans and stings like a wasp[2]. Like with other spiders, most bites are misreported. Side-note[2]: I am unaware of any Italian folklore dance for wasp stings.
