Spiders and I have an agreement: don't spin webs at people height. Spiders get the corners, ceilings and anywhere we don't walk. If you try to spin a web on the bananas, RIP.
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As long as the size doesn't bug you, you'd probably enjoy huntsman spiders. They prefer eating other insects and even other spiders, and generally leave people alone, even run away from us. They dont spin webs, they eat any bug they can get, including venomous insects. They love eating mosquitoes and cockroachs. If for some reason you feel like attacking one, dont, not only are they helpful, they can jump quite a distance and are faster than you at their peak speed.
This post was made by the Friends of the Huntsmen.
This is why I love jumping spiders.
I’d be terrified of a huntsmen spider, but I love jumping spiders i leave them be whenever I see them, knowing that they will snack on all the fruit flies, moths, and mosquitoes that make it into my house.
jumping spiders are also a about the perfect size for a spider: small enough that it doesn't elicit a deep primal horror inside me, large enough to feast on other gross bugs.
add to that their intelligence and not spinning webs, and hell yeah spiderbro.
them and proper orbweavers (who spin their web and straight up stay there forever if they keep finding food in their web, you can trivially easily keep them as pets by putting them on a little U shaped contraption and putting a bug in their web every now and then) are so compatible with humans that i hope we borderline domesticate them.
I love jumpers because they're cute. The anime sized front facing eyes and movements that make them look so damn curious all the time—I just can't get over those.
My wife is arachnophobic, but likes jumping spiders. Most of the phobia seems to be in the legs, since they have such stumpy ones.
can confirm, anything with long thin legs makes me want to cry profusely, but if the legs are short and wide then i'll at worst be a bit grossed out.
That’s a no from me dog. If I saw that in my house, I’d move. As in, move fast to the door and never look back. He can have the house, and all my shit. I’m taking my dog and getting the fuck out of dodge.
Just don't move somehwere that has any really venomous spiders if you're uncomfortable with the Huntsmen, because the smaller spiders Huntsmen scare away like recluses, funnel webs, and black widows are venomous enough to kill both of you.
Oh I understand. It’s more of a reflex instinct than anything else.
Case in point, I have a lot of spiders around the outside of my house. The other day I was trying to examine a flood light that was not working correctly, and of course there are a lot of webs (and cobwebs) around it. I go to step up, and in a split second I noticed I’m literally face to face with a spider in a huge web. If I had taken one more step, we’d have been kissing.
As much as i fear spiders, I am usually ok with being in their presence – assuming I can readily avoid them if need be. But this time, well, it was very upsetting to me. Maybe to it too, because by the morning it had packed its web up and left. 🤣
It's kind of funny you mention that because some of the worst injuries caused by spiders that generally avoid humans are the startling reactions to seeing one where you're not expecting one, like while on a ladder or even driving. Don't mistake my meaning of advocating for these spiders, I'd be suepr freaked out too. It's hard to have any other kind of first reaction.
Spiders won't eliminate your bug problem either. The presence of predators in an environment doesn't imply all of their prey will soon go extinct.
You eliminate bugs by preventing their entry, reducing or removing their food and water sources, and/or interrupting or preventing their mating cycles. Or occasionally deploying something that kills everything in an area (though if you don't also do the other steps above, they'll eventually return).
I always worry that the spiders I leave alive will have ten million spider babies. Is that not a concern for any of you?
Get a cat and solve both issues
This summer I'm stepping on the scorpions, because I've seen them several times killing spiders.
The longleg spiders in my house stay around the ceiling near one of the windows, plenty of moths show up every once in a while. Also a bunch of tiny, pencil lead sized flying things.
Meanwhile, the ants all run around the floor.
Tourist version -
Me - here's your chalet. Remember, it's very well insulated for the winter weather, so in summer just keep the windows and doors closed during the day and it'll stay cool inside for the same reason, then you can open the windows in the evening. Otherwise it'll just be boiling hot and full of flies. There's no need for AC.
Guests - ok that makes sense
Guests two days later - MY CHALET IS BOILING HOT AND FULL OF FLIES YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT I NEED AC
Me under my breath - seriously fuck off you stupid cunts
I'm late to the party, but I don't see this linked yet Can I introduce you all to Travis? This guy does deep dives into the spiders you might trip over in your house and has recently started also doing general spider knowledge as well.
Awe yiss. New channel.
There's one on zebra jumpers. Gonna have to get to that when I got a spare half hour.
Love those little guys!
House centipedes (Scutigera coleoptrata) are equally as beneficial as they are creepy.
The creepiness increases tenfold when you encounter one for the first time and it is as scared of you then you are scared of it. Those little guys are very fast.
When I learned that they are harmless to us humans I started to tolerate them. I mean they really try to get out of our way.
I live in an area with those fuckers, but also brown recluses and black widows. As a kid I always though we were lucky because we didn’t have any house centipedes, but now I realize that the houses with centipedes don’t have the widows and recluses. It’s like a turf war and I’m in the more dangerous neighborhood.
“Hey baby, those legs go all the way up?
“And around!”