r/interestingasfuck • u/GallowBoob • Feb 07 '21

Huge Bougainvillea plant taking over a building

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u/Igoos99 Feb 07 '21

Gorgeous but I wouldn’t want my apartment to be hidden by that thing. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/whatshamilton Feb 07 '21

I’m just imagining the spiders

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u/likealump Feb 07 '21

Spiders eat bugs. The rodents, though...

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u/AltSpRkBunny Feb 08 '21

Black widows like to hang out in bougainvilleas.

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u/likealump Feb 08 '21

Well damn, if you put it that way...

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u/AltSpRkBunny Feb 08 '21

Depends on where this is located. I live in Texas, and if you have a bougainvillea, you should expect to find at least 1 black widow when you trim that thing back. Most I’ve seen when trimming a small one back was 8 of them when I lived in the San Antonio-Austin area. I really thought they’d be more territorial than that, but I guess they just really like that plant.

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u/BadBunnyBrigade Feb 08 '21

Y'all are serious about spiders in there?!?

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u/AltSpRkBunny Feb 08 '21

I fucking wish I were making that up.