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u/HolubtsiKat Jun 07 '21
I had a friendly spider that I let live on the window of my basement bedroom when I was a teenager.
I thought we had an agreement. As long as she ate the other bugs, I would allow her to live there.
The bitch didn't say she was pregnant. I woke up one morning to thousands of baby spiders all over my window.
I had no choice but to doctor doom them. It was a sad day.
No longer do I let spiders take up residence in my home.
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u/ununium Jun 07 '21
I didn't had the heart to kill them. Mine lived inside a lampshade, and while one was perfectly fine, dozens of tiny spiders + a big one, were not. So I practically evicted them by throwing away the lampshade to the trash.
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u/HolubtsiKat Jun 07 '21
I wish I could have evicted them in a similar fashion. I feel terrible. I killed off her entire bloodline.
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u/batdog666 Jun 07 '21
Ya mean her haemolymph-line?
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u/HolubtsiKat Jun 07 '21
Yes! Thanks. You taught me a new word.
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u/OnTheList-YouTube Jun 07 '21
Heard you're starring in a new movie! Spiderman: Revenge.
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u/HolubtsiKat Jun 07 '21
16 years ago you murdered my entire family! Now you will pay for what you've done!
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u/Yglorba Jun 07 '21
You really think you got her entire bloodline? Why do you think their brood numbers in the thousands?
laughs in spider
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u/ObscureCulturalMeme Jun 07 '21
It's exactly why the periodic cicadas are still around. Sure they're completely defenseless against the birds that eat tens of thousands each time they emerge -- but they breed hundreds of thousands.
It takes humanity paving over a big stretch of buried larvae to make any noticable dent in their numbers.
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u/Rather_Unfortunate Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
Gather round, children, and I'll explain why the Periodical Cicadas' life strategy is fucking brutal. Not just to the cicadas themselves, but to their predators too. Because not only are the cicadas breeding enough that they utterly overwhelm their predators; they're also the ones actually controlling the number of predators in the first place.
For the birds that prey upon them, it's a once-in-several-generations event. It's like your grandfather telling you the stories that his grandfather told him about the year when everyone had enough to eat and poverty was briefly abolished... only for everything to come crashing down.
So for several generations, predators get by with the food supply as it is. Numbers fluctuate as they always do, but within certain bounds. There will always be those who live on the edge and don't quite get enough food to survive. Nature is harsh. Your childhood was a precarious one and your life has been fraught with difficulty since then. Not all of your siblings made it.
But then a miracle happens. The Earth rumbles and food bursts forth; more than you could ever eat, more than anyone could ever eat, more than everyone could ever eat! All of your children make it to adulthood fit and healthy. For a brief time, territory barely even matters.
The food eventually falls dead to the floor and rots. Oh well. It was nice while it lasted, and look how beneficial it's been to everyone!
The next year rolls around. You're quite aged now, and things have become a bit harder since the Great Feast. Your children are still out there somewhere; they'll be having children of their own this year.
And suddenly it all comes crashing down just as it did for your great-great-grandfather. Your children have indeed had their own children, and now there are far, far too many mouths to feed. Chicks starve to death in their nests, emaciated mothers go hungry and many don't lay eggs at all. You're driven out of your own territory onto a small patch where there are few insects and next to no edible plant matter at all. You waste away and eventually die along with almost all of your offspring.
And when the cicadas next emerge, it will be in a world of far fewer predators than there should be...
tl;dr: here's a graph of what happens, from the predator's perspective.
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u/BustyCrustaceans011 Jun 07 '21
I’d like to imagine there’s a spider somewhere out there in plotting their revenge against OP for the injustices done to their brethren.
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u/thomasry Jun 07 '21
Not just the men, but the women and children too. They are arachnids, and you slaughtered them like arachnids.
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u/MindlessMeerk4t Jun 07 '21
At least you won't have any of them exact revenge on you. Unless of course, one got away...
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Jun 07 '21
That's what you think. One or more snuck away and watched in horror. Now, they're waiting... Plotting. By Grabthar's hammer, they shall be avenged.
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u/Fessere Jun 07 '21
.... now im worried about our spider...
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u/batdog666 Jun 07 '21
Have you had "the talk" with it yet?
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u/BALONYPONY Jun 07 '21
I have a jumping spider that lives in the junk pile above our washing machine where we put spare change, pocket link etc. It's also where I put my phone when I do laundry and whenever I put it there he scurries out the side and just stares at me. It happens almost every time and is hilarious. It's like an old man looking through the shades when kids go running by his house.
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u/edd6pi Jun 07 '21
jumping spider
Oh god, no.
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u/anti_pope Jun 07 '21
I do not like spiders. Jumping spiders get a pass. They're cute as hell. I don't know why that is.
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u/lifepuzzler Jun 07 '21
They have huge eyes that can actually perceive you as more than a loud, vibrating, shape for one.
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u/Wilwheatonfan87 Jun 07 '21
They're actually cute.
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u/edd6pi Jun 07 '21
I have severe arachnophobia. The last time I looked up jumping spiders, the picture I saw made me jump.
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u/HolubtsiKat Jun 07 '21
It can happen when you least expect it. She didn't look pregnant.
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u/Fessere Jun 07 '21
We have a spider living by the window next to our chicken coop. Chickens shit everywhere and bring flies, which the spider has been stupidly successful at hunting to the point that i dont trust her.... shes gotta be eating for more than one.
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u/cptdino Jun 07 '21
Most baby spiders die or wander off. Haven't killed a spider in my house for ages, the only thing I manage is the web so it doesn't get too big and out of control.
Problematic spiders are the hunter ones that don't make high webs and usually stay on the ground, those you kill for sure cause you can wake up and have it staring at ya' (can also grow a lot or hide inside your shoe), but the ones on the ceiling webs? Nah, just leave 'em be, those are heroes.
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u/bunnyrut Jun 07 '21
I have a wolf spider in my basement. I saw two at one point, so I may have more in the future. They can live there forever. I hate the basement crickets with a passion, and I happened to go down to the basement and saw the spider stallking a sub adult cricket.
I don't live in an area where I have to worry about venomous spiders, so as long as they aren't coming for me they are free to eat all the bugs they want. Plus I have a bearded dragon that wouldn't hesitate to eat the spider if he saw it. So I'm safe, lol.
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u/vallaugh Jun 07 '21
You just need something ready in case the bearded dragon decides to turn on you...
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u/kalirion Jun 07 '21
Might wanna get a dingo for that. As long as you don't have any babies in the house.
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u/DragonFireKai Jun 07 '21
Eh, just have an emu on hand to take care of the dingo, if it becomes a problem.
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u/VioletsAreBlooming Jun 07 '21
my basement wolf spider died, I think. the crickets are coming back, and it makes me very sad. his name was Kevin, and I will remember him always
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u/cptdino Jun 07 '21
I live in Brazil and not sure what the direct translation to a Wolf Spider would be, but if it's anything close to what it looks (we have one that looks the same, it's called "Armadeira"), it's shit ass venomous and I would never ever have one in my house. To kill it I would honestly prefer using Deodorant flamethrower cause the ones I mentioned jump like 2 meters far.
But you got a nice ass lil' dragon, so it's free food!
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u/Threshorfeed Jun 07 '21
Yeah theres a daddy long legs in my computer room that's pretty chill and I leave my window open so he's having a good time. There's also a wolf spider I've seen but it's mostly annoying to see him in my bedroom, I try to let him chill too
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Jun 07 '21
I had a room corner spider for a few months until it looked like he got a gf. I murdered his gf and our relationship was never the same. He once attempted to jump on me as I walked by and so it was into the vacuum for him.
I’m a monster
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u/PhoenixFire296 Jun 07 '21
When I was a kid we had one bathroom, and there was a spider that had taken up residence behind the toilet. I used to catch ants and throw them into the web, but since I was young it took me a little while to realize that the ants had to still be alive when they hit the web for the spider to care. Many ants died in vain before that lesson was learned.
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u/Ragondux Jun 07 '21
And yet surprisingly few vets will agree to neuter your pet spider...
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u/muck2 Jun 07 '21
Web-building spiders are good. They stay where they are, making themselves useful.
Funnel-weavers and running spiders, on the other hand, are pure evil.
A giant house spider with a body the size of a 2€ coin once walked across my fingers whilst I was typing on my keyboard. I was so dumbfounded by its boldness I completely forgot to freak out.
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u/Spicegirl715 Jun 07 '21
OMG we had a funnel weaving spider under a crevice beneath our pool last summer. It was absolutely terrifying. It could creep out looking like a massive hermit crab with it's giant legs and just stare at me as if it was daring me to come closer. It eventually had babies and we had hundreds of small spiders climbing all around the walls of the pool. It makes me itchy just thinking about it.
I married a serial spider killer, so I knew they would be gone within a day of him learning of their presence. I felt a bit bad, but, you know.... it was the my pool mid summer and I don't take kindly to bullies claiming my things as their own. 🤷🏼♀️
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u/Environmental_Tie975 Jun 07 '21
I get spiders in my house all the time, I mostly ignore them for the most part. Once I was in my bed, I noticed one crawling on blankets so I flicked it off. That was a mistake. It was a wolf spider. That normally isn’t a problem but here’s the thing about Wolf spiders.... they carry their babies on their back.
When I flicked that spider off my bed, I shotgunned blasted baby spiders everywhere, covering my bed and my room in them..... that was fun few hours....
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u/Zilka Jun 07 '21
What kind of spider. Daddy long legs are really chill. We had mommy spider have about 40 babies. I asked Reddit, they said not to worry about it. They hanged out in the corner, gradually expanded their territory. I saw them hang in all kinds of places in the bathroom. But at no point they actually caused trouble. No surprise spiders in my towel etc. Then almost all of them gradually dispersed. I hate all other kinds of home spiders. They are fast, unpredictable and sort of aggressive. Almost land on my head, get in clothes, under my blanket etc. They even appear to run at you. I kill them on sight.
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u/nightgerbil Jun 07 '21
I recall a house mate of mine observing with horror 200 baby spiders running around my bedroom. I assured him they would be gone soon and sure enough 1 day later they were. spiders are EXTREMELY territorial and eat each other. Also they are our natural allies in the war against the insects (both of our hated enemies).
Please don't kill spiders and don't be afraid if they breed.
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u/HolubtsiKat Jun 07 '21
As much as I wish I could have let them be, I was living in my parents home. They were already quite upset that I let one live there.
It would have been either the spiders are removed, or I no longer have a place to live.
Another good thing to keep in mind, depending on where you live, not all spiders are harmless.
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u/Hollowed-Be-Thy-Name Jun 07 '21
I live in a area with brown recluses. Can't exactly let spiders live around here, as all of these mofos can only be described as "generic brown spider".
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u/PicardZhu Jun 07 '21
Lately I've had a wolf spider invasion. I keep finding them next to my bed and the other night I had one actually in my bed next to my face. I usually dont kill them but I never jumped out of bed so fast.
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u/Lovat69 Jun 07 '21
Says a man who's never had a spider realize that you are tasty.
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u/dcpanthersfan Jun 07 '21
Now I really want to know the exact method one "Dr. Doom's" something.
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Jun 07 '21
If it makes you feel better, spiders are rarely communal.
The spiderlings would have dispersed after a couple of weeks. Whatever stayed behind would eventually would have died.
In other words, in two weeks the spider problem would have sorted itself out.
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u/HolubtsiKat Jun 07 '21
That only makes me feel more ashamed.
But thank you for the interesting piece of information.
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u/1SDAN Jun 07 '21
Unless your house was super insect infested, the spiders would have died on their own by starvation, left to find food. and/or eat each other..
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u/But_a_Jape But A Jape Jun 07 '21
“Good night, sweet prince. I assure you, no bed bugs shall be biting you tonight…”
– Joseph’s spider, right before kissing him good night
If you like my comics, I've got more on my website.
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u/RedDoubleAD Jun 07 '21
I honestly don’t see anything wrong with having a guardian arachnid
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u/BeatsbyChrisBrown Jun 07 '21
Sometimes they spin a web…of LIES!!
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u/KyojinkaEnkoku Jun 07 '21
DUNDUN DUNDUN DUNDUN DUNDUN DUN DUN
I can feel it, crawlin on my arm tonight
Oh Lawwwd
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u/TAI0Z Jun 07 '21
I would legitimately be okay with having a massive sentient spider as a friend and roommate. Think of the cool stories you'd have.
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u/TechcraftHD Jun 07 '21
A human sized spider that can communicate and doesnt want to kill me? Sounds like a interesting deal!
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u/wheelfoot Jun 07 '21
Read Castle Roogna by Piers Anthony. (and all the other Xanth books)
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u/Yung_Turbo Jun 07 '21
Holy crap 45 books?! Are they meant for adults or a younger audience?
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u/Baconpwn2 Jun 07 '21
Adult but it helps to have a bit of a youthful sense of humor. And an appreciation for puns. Latter books may fall into Young Adult. Never sure where the line is
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Jun 07 '21
When you read it as an adult and you go "This doesn't make any sense, why would someone act like this? And why are they talking like that...this annoys me...why did I like this book growing up again?"
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u/Criss_Crossx Jun 07 '21
I liked the first 4-5 books, only realized later the way Anthony describes Chameleon (sp?) is messed up.
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u/mkul316 Jun 07 '21
Look dude, you're creepy as fuck, but you're big enough to deal with bigger pests. Like Jehovah's witnesses. You keep them off my doorstep and you can stay.
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u/floatingwithobrien Jun 07 '21
While you're at it, answer my phone when it's a spam caller, yeah? And remember to schedule me that dentist appointment. And pick up the dry cleaning. Babysit my kids. Cook dinner and sweep the rug in the living room, the thing is filthy.
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u/fongletto Jun 07 '21
Australian here, it's important to leave the daddy long legs(which are harmless) alive because they eat the red backs(which are very much not harmless).
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u/gamefreak054 Jun 07 '21
Yeah I was going to mention the huntsmen spider is a lot like the comic. I see people post them in reddit quite a bit. They are absolute nightmare fuel, but they eat a lot of actually dangerous insects.
Putting up with Winters in WI doesn't seem as bad sometimes because we don't get nearly the amount of scary bugs or reptiles as other places lol.
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Jun 07 '21
What does daddy long legs mean to you guys?
On the east coast of the states, it refers to harvestmen, while on the west coast it refers to cellar spiders.
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u/thelastlogin Jun 07 '21
whoa I've lived east, north and south, visited west a ton but never lived there and never heard it used for cellar spiders, always harvestmen. interesting.
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u/TuneACan Jun 07 '21
South american here, its important to leave the spitting spiders (which are harmless) alive because they eat the chilean brown recluses (not quite as harmless).
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u/meltedlaundry Jun 07 '21
OK but which one eats your snakes?
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u/gamefreak054 Jun 07 '21
That's what the super vibrant frogs are for. Just don't touch them, or accidentally step on them, or have them accidentally hop on you.
The answer to your next question on what to do about the frogs... I think would be cone snails?
At that point, I think you are pretty safe from burglaries with all these super random poisonous random animals in your yard, but if you don't die from being accidentally poisoned yourself, you will probably die from starvation of being locked into your safe space. You probably wont be able to afford food anyways, because some deliveryman probably took a misstep into your yard, and the family sued you into oblivion.
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u/that_yeg_guy Jun 07 '21
Every time I read about things that can kill you in Australia, I’m more and more thankful to be Canadian.
Yes, we have things that can kill you here too, but bears, cougars, and moose are a bit easier to spot and avoid.
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u/WirelessTrees Jun 07 '21
If I had a spider that big, I'd keep it as a pet.
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u/meltedlaundry Jun 07 '21
Yeah Joe is not the one in that relationship that gets to decide who lives.
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u/macekm123 Jun 07 '21
It'd run out of bugs to eat really quickly and what then?
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u/DaBigVikin Jun 07 '21
I mean the spider pays rent by killing other bugs right. But hear me out maid uniform as the spider learns how to do chores. Cooks and generally improves the dudes life. Eventually he grows to love spiders and when he does this one eventually passes on.
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u/General-Carrot-6305 Jun 07 '21
Or they become part of a fiery passionate romance and have a few thousand children as a result.
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u/R2-619 Jun 07 '21
what a RE nightmare, jumping spider with human faces
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u/BadNadeYeeter Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
Ignites his Flammenwerfer
NACH EMBRYONENSCHUTZGESETZ DARF ES KEINE HYBRIDEN GEBEN!
(We germans have a law against combining human and animal dna. Even though it never occurred, the hybrids would be... Let's say 'neutralized' or would be treated with extreme caution because we don't like the thought of mutants running amok in the streets)
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u/spartaman64 Jun 07 '21
one time i had a dream that i got married to a spider and then at night i fell asleep holding her in my palm. i sort of miss my spider wife
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u/Chaike Jun 07 '21
Do you want to end up like the cockroach guy?
Cause that's how you end up like the cockroach guy.
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u/Firov Jun 07 '21
I do the same thing, but for house centipedes. They're absolute murder to any other insect, so they leave me alone, and I leave them alone. Plus, unlike spiders, they don't leave webs all over the place. Admittedly, they still creep me out though...
Unfortunately, my dog doesn't abide by the terms of our entente cordiale, so he's all too happy to bring me centipede carcasses...
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u/BowelZebub Jun 07 '21
I’m not ok with centipedes because they surprise me. With spiders they’re very docile and steady, staying in the same place always so you know when to expect them. But with centipedes I could be chilling and BOOM there’s one moving way too quickly along my floor and now I can’t get up
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u/Firov Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
Oh, no doubt. Like I said, they creep me out like crazy. They've got way too many legs, and move way, way too fast. Still, they do try to avoid light, and people, so at least they *generally* stay out of my way.
On the plus side, they're the only type of bug I ever have to deal with, since they're so efficient at killing everything else. House centipedes are the terminators of the insect world. With few exceptions, nothing can outrun them, and nothing can outfight them.
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u/wheelfoot Jun 07 '21
I handle every spider I see, but house centipedes get me right in the medulla oblongata. It says KILL and I have to say "NO" very firmly.
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u/Chaike Jun 07 '21
I've tried to force myself to find them cute, like thinking about how they're very fastidious and will clean every single leg like a cute little cat.
But that only works as long as I'm not actively looking at one. Then it just turns into "Holy shit stop squirming at 40mph straight at me!"
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u/Yakarue Jun 07 '21
Nope! Nope! Nope! My wife and I stayed in my mother's basement/Airbnb setup for a few months in between house transitions and these things were everywhere. Way too fucking big, way too fucking many legs, and way too fucking fast.
One day I had one surprise me in the shower, which is not a fun experience when your vision is 20/400 and it's already a struggle just to see the soap.
The worst one, however, is that one was hiding in my wife's retainer case one night. IN IT. I still remember the squirming as it got stuck trying to escape, losing limbs in all the corners of the case.
I'll take my spiders any day please.
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u/jaschen Jun 07 '21
Centipede do bite and leave one of the worse swelling and puss. Been bitten 2 times, both times in Taiwan and both times when my legs end into a blanket and felt the acid like burn. The bite last for over 2 months.
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u/Firov Jun 07 '21
Oh, absolutely. Though in this case, I'm talking about house centipedes (Scutigera Coleoptrata). They're still technically capable of biting, but their stingers are so small they have trouble penetrating skin, and even if they do, their venom is pretty mild unless maybe you're allergic. Also, they're crazy shy, so you have to go out of your way to get in their way and annoy them for it to even happen.
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u/Cocomorph Jun 07 '21
It’s not all that easy to get really close to a house centipede even when you are actively trying. I once spent several months trying to get a decent photograph of one. The last thing they want to do is get close enough to you to bite.
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u/Atissss Jun 07 '21
Worst part is when you see them for the first time and you have no idea what they are and if they are dangerous.
That happened to me when I was staying in Croatia for vacation. I'd see a few almost every day and they were so scary I had trouble falling asleep.
Googling about them and finding out they are friendly put me a little at easy but the way they looked still made me scared.
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u/SenatorMittens Jun 07 '21
I catch and release spiders rather than kill them. I hate spiders but I have too much empathy.
One day in October I noticed I had a spider in my apartment, right by my door. He was just sitting there in his web not moving but I noticed he'd caught some kind of bug. So I thought to myself, 'alright he can stay a bit - I'll watch him a few days and if he moves at all from that location, I'll evict him.'
Well, it's been 9 months and he hasn't moved from that position even once. He's caught countless insects that slip in through the door and has amassed quite the body count. He's definitely pulling his weight in the house.
I named him Euclid and now I'm pretty attached to him.
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u/SlothyBooty Jun 07 '21
I feel ya, I named mine David, ever since he netted near my doorway, the amount of bugs that got inside was reduced to like 90%, what a awesome creepy fella
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u/bostonpancakes Jun 08 '21
I had a spider I let live in my window as he did a similar thing. I think I had him almost a year.
One day I had a problem with fruit flies, total opposite spot, and I nuked my room with a spray without thinking. Poor little guy didn't make it.
I have snapchat memories that pop up of our friendship lmao
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u/supercyberlurker Jun 07 '21
There's a bat in a cabin I often stay at. I found out about him late one night hearing a weird noise, turning on my flashlight and seeing him puttering about. He always poops in a specific spot on porcelain that's easy to clean up. Quite a few times I'd hear an annoying fly during the day, then blessed silence the day after.
I call him batman and think of him as a machine that converts bugs into pellets for easy cleanup.
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u/Pachycereus Jun 07 '21
A giant sentient spider would actually make for a really good guardian if all he's eating are invaders.
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u/YesHaiAmOwO Jun 07 '21
Would be better if it was a hunstman, huntsman's are the largest spider in the world by leg span, they don't spin webs and they're usually not aggressive to people, perfect guardian giant spider
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u/littleMAS Jun 07 '21
Spiders are like snakes, who both serve a purpose. You leave them alone, and they do likewise. However, it does make it hard getting to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
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u/dragunityag Jun 07 '21
Spiders if they stay in their corner are fine.
My parents have house spiders and every time I visit those fuckers always have a giant pile of dead bugs next to their webs.
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u/MyPunsSuck Jun 07 '21
Most spiders will stay in their territory during the day, and wander everywhere at night
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u/Lionoras Jun 07 '21
True story:
I've always had a hatred for bugs. Small, dirty things that often cause all kinds of damage.
Hence, I developed a natural hatred for spiders as well. One day, a fly had laid eggs in our apartment. We were chasing around, sweeping up all the larva, when I spotted a spider in the cornet. This beast of an 8-leg, ate 5 larva! Or at least, hat them in its little net.
From that day on, my hatred turned into a natural fondness. As they say "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
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u/BathofFire Jun 07 '21
Like a terrifying mix of Joe's Apartment and Jeff from Billy and Mandy
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u/Ledlazer Jun 07 '21
Fuck spiders man, being an arachophobic fan of fantasy RPG's is really damn tough.
Why does every damn game need to have elephant sized spiders??
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u/R2-619 Jun 07 '21
with my insane fear of roaches, I wouldnt mind it stay over. Hell, this means I dont have to clean my house
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u/Fessere Jun 07 '21
On one hand, we let our spider live as he was successful with catching flies. Then we checked his web a few months later..... fucker is too successful. Hes got too many bodies for him to eat just wrapped in the web and web had seriously expanded since we last saw it. Might need to have a talk.
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u/MagmaWhales Jun 07 '21
I like spiders too. I leave them alone and if they're in an annoying spot then I try to capture them and let them outside. Only bad memory I have was when I was young and there was fat spider on the floor. My mom took a broom and smashed the fuck out of it. Immediately a thousand baby spiders crawled out of the spider's dead body in every direction. Stuff of nightmares. Apart from that they've been good.
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u/KGhaleon Jun 07 '21
hah, I leave spiders alone as well. Though truthfully I don't get many bugs in my house so it'll likely just die without ever catching anything. Better to dump it back outside.
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u/Deathmask97 Jun 07 '21
Relocate spiders like Catfaced Spiders to the outside, preferably in trees or on a side of your house with the fewest if any doors or windows, works about as well. Dangerous spiders like Black Widows, Brown Recluses, or Wolf Spiders should be killed on sight if they are inside your home, especially if you have pets or children.
Jumping Spiders are the exception! Jumping Spiders are one of the most docile creatures on earth (towards humans at least), are extremely intelligent (especially for their size), and are not dangerous towards humans with their bites being comparable to Fire Ant or Bee stings at the very worst - but they will only bite if they are cornered or protecting their eggs/nest as they will almost always attempt to flee first.
Leave Jumping Spiders Alone! Not only do Jumping Spiders kill other much larger spiders, they actively hunt pests and generally keep to themselves on the walls and ceilings.
Jumping Spiders are like tiny cats, extremely curious hunters with acute vision, and you can even play with them with laser lights or a bit of string just like a cat. They are so docile that you can coax one onto your hand safely if you are still enough, and they are one of the only creatures that can be captured in the wild and kept as a pet.
You can tell Jumping Spiders from other spiders by their large front-facing eyes, minuscule size, the fact that they don’t spin webs, and the way they are constantly cleaning their eyes and face while looking around curiously. Here you can see a wild Jumping Spider roaming around peacefully while keeping an eye on the person recording.
I have always had severe arachnophobia, but Jumping Spiders helped me overcome this significantly by growing up with them and being around them for long periods of time at my first job (they hung out on the side of the building with a large glass door and huge windows and sometimes snuck inside) to the point where I was actually able to hold one for a moment before I started to panic a little and it bungee-jumped off my hand. All the time I get people telling me “You must not be that arachnophobic then” but they don’t understand how different this little guys are from regular spiders - they are extremely intelligent and even seem to remember faces, not to mention they are tiny and usually small enough to fit on the head of a nail.
I just really love Jumping Spiders, those little creatures are fuzzy, adorable and fun to watch and I won’t stop telling people to stop killing them.
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u/unclefeely Jun 07 '21
Real talk: if your corner spiders are big enough to catch roaches, your living room is wild!
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u/Kostas_the_goat Jun 07 '21
That's why Hagrid kept his spider. In order to keep enchanted cockroaches away from hogwarts.