TerraGreen: Black Widow Vs Venus Flytrap

I think I'm Team Venus Flytrap in this little scenario rather than Team Black Widow. Spiders kinda give me the creeps but I am enough of a "Sigma" to be able to get rid of that creepy-crawler that's living rentfree in your bathroom that keeps you from going in there.

The thumbnail for this video caught my eye so I had to watch this one. Its likely one of those "AI thumbnails" that a lot of people are perturbed about, like those created with MrBeast's "inspirational" AI thumbnail offer that had many responding with heated words. Its still a good one though (likely Photoshopped).

But you're reading this waiting til I get to the video, so I'll let you watch. I'm wondering if I can take bets on who is going to win this battle of nature?

The spider looks robust and scarily big enough to shrug off the little mouthy part of the Venus Fly Trap.

But who knows for sure? Let's see...

The video was uploaded by TerraGreen who have run up almost 250M views on YouTube after starting to post videos about a year and a half ago (November 2023) when they posted their first video called "Simulating a Rainforest for 30 Days" which has 3.2 million views itself.

Their 1st video has millions of views? How many videos has this channel uploaded to get almost 250 million views on YouTube in so short a time? Well, 46 including this flytrap fighting a giant spider video.

The content isn't your usual YouTube slop drama stuff, or reaction videos, or the latest hot takes on politics with whatever para-social host your engaged with "owning" the libs or pwning the conservatives.

It's more of this stuff. Odd pets, like spiders, two-headed snakes, scorpions or rare, colorful lizards. Not your usual pet cat videos you usually see on YouTube.

This video was interesting because first of all he used two different flytraps by cost with one batch costing $10 and another more aggressive looking group of plants (they seemed a little further along on the evolutionary scale) that I wanted to see try to snar some tougher bugs.

Those second Venus Flytraps kind of reminded me of the hungry plant from Little Shop of Horrors. If you want a reminder of that film's weird awesomeness, here's the trailer.

Returning to the video at the top, it turned out the flyplants pretty much decimated all the spiders in quick order, which is good. I wouldn't want to have a Black Widoe Spider making a jail break and start looking for a spot in my home to crouch and multiply. Unless its Scarlett Johansson, then I might be willing to make an exception.

Just a quick word about spiders. Apparently if you're not too careful, some larger spiders hitchhike into your home from the grocery store as they curl up in that part of those bananas that connect, then go exploring when you put the bunch away.

I think this happened to me as after bringing home some groceries I spotted a BIG spider. (He was sitting in the bathroom reading the newspaper and he told me I needed to buy some more beer. Just kidding.) I saw it in the bathroom and grabbed my trusty flyswatter and senselessly beat him soundly thinking I had made quick work of my bugly intruder. But the spider just shrugged it off and ran down the air vent unharmed. I swear it stopped, looked at me and flipped me the bird with its little legs before staggering into the darkness of the vent. Did I mention I don't like spiders?

If you liked the flytrap-spider video, TerraGreen has a bunch you might enjoy and it looks like they're just a the start as far as content creation so you might subscribe for their newer ones.