Spiders are great to have in your house. I’ve got big house centipedes too. The poor pest control guy doesn’t get a penny off of me. No termites, no silverfish, earwigs…etc. Sometimes I get ants in the kitchen, but that is easily controlled with some cleaning and cinnamon.
Seriously, those spiders are doing you a favor. Let them do their thing.
I forced my parents to stop wasting money and pumping their yard full of chemicals about 5 years ago. They went from being inundated with mosquitoes and stinkbugs (and absolutely nothing else) to now having what feels like every species of orbweaver under the sun amongst several other spood types, and lizards, and bees, and beetles; it’s glorious.
Now that my 8-legged freaks are back in town, though, the mosquitoes and stinkbugs are down to 1/3rd of what they were before. In fact, I’ve barely seen any and a few of the Joro spiders around here are FAT. Abdomens the size of my thumb!
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Bologna. There was never a flying insect in my cabin, and yet two assholes decided to build giant webs in the middle. Spiders aren’t intelligent enough to track insect movement patterns and then build their webs.
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Yes, and they probably would have died eventually, if I had let them survive to that point. Also, 0x20 is still 0.
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I ascii what you did there… Well 0x20 you, then!
The Australian ones (whitetails) are more populous, venemous, and aggressive than you could imagine in summer. I’d have a kill one inside my house almost every day.
It probably doesn’t help that our houses seal worse than an average tent.
Now I have to lookup statistics on how many people die in Oz land due to these demon spawns. Mercy on your soul.
Did a quick google, they aren’t lethal, and they hide from people and eat other spiders, so they’re one of the good ones. Surprisingly very few people die from the horrors of Australia, they’ve got a really robust setup for getting people anti-venom. Virtually no one dies from spiders in Australia, the last reported death was in 1980.
afaik our anti venom program is so good we pretty much supply the entire world with anti venom
TIL
I’m surprised it’s so low. My brother in law just sent me a photo posing with the red-bellied black snake that he found in his suburban Melbourne backyard today.
Couldn’t pay me losing my virginity to make me do that. lol
They make the best pets. You don’t even need to feed them.
Spiders don’t go where there’s no food for them. You don’t have a spider problem, they’re trying to fix your insect problem.
Yeah, I think of them as independent contractor pest control, they come and go as they please and as long as they don’t interfere with my day to day, we’re all good.
They do good work and don’t complain.
I have macro shots of a tiny jumping spider hauling a fly behind a bathroom pic. She is most welcome to stay.
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Seriously. I have zero problem when I see spiders in my house. I’m like, “Oh, good. Keep it up, bro.” Totally happy to have arachnids around.
This is why I welcome them in. I don’t have screens on my windows, so in the summer, flies get in. The spiders are why I don’t have a fly problem.
tell that to the cellar spiders that keep getting into my apartment and dying in the corner of the ceiling.
Somehow, my kid grew up afraid of bugs. He moved back in with me recently. I had a spider buddy in the kitchen, small, with a web in a corner. He’d been there all summer. We didn’t bother each other.
My kid got rid of him.
Fortunately, my kid doesn’t go in the garage much. He’d find the black widow residing in a corner which has been home to a black widow since before I moved in almost 30 years ago. I bought the house new-built, she moved in before me. She doesn’t bother me, I don’t bother her. In fact, I’m the interloper in her history. (Obviously, not the same black widow.)
I wonder how many kids get bit by black widow’s because their parents didn’t recognize them as dangerous
Can you please write a metal-as-fuck version of Charlotte’s Web where your black widow blood line watches you work on cars, or just live life or whatever?
I am imagining her as kind of a black leather halloween catwoman punk or slutty version of the original, but only you can tell her real story.
I don’t know how to tell you but spiders only live up to 3 years.
Good news: You missed a number of funerals.
Bad News: you missed a few birthdays
Never got fear of spiders, i learned pretty quick they arent dangerous.
I dare you to sleep in a bad full of them.
I will take spiders over moths any day tbh
one about that size decided to make a web across my bathroom door. good morning, whoa.
I still have pictures of the asshole orb weaver that decided to bar me from leaving my house at freaking five o’clock in the morning. That was a very, very unpleasant realization. Then there was another one that decided to make my entire cabin (it was a one roomer, so very wide for the kitchen/living room) it’s webspace. Like, I’m okay if they build a web across my window, or in a corner, but not in my areas. They aren’t paying enough of the rent to get that privilege.
run into them outside this time of year, walking to the car. used fly zapper on inside guy. darwin
If spiders are in your house, then something for them to eat is in your house too.
Massive lie ,how come old closed house are full of spider and their never ending web?
cannibalistic spiders?
Umm no? Cannibalism is least part of a diet of a spider
I like spirderbros.
We have no guarantee that you are human, you could be a spider on the internet spreading pro-Spider sentiment!
A cockroach spreading anti-spider propaganda.
Or worse, they could be Australian!
There are many spiderbros… we are legion!
We have no guarantees that you’re human, you could be a mosquito spreading anti-spider sentiment!
So there is a type of spray used on boats to get rid of spiders. As you can imagine, having an in closed space near the water is prime real estate for spiders. The spray works by making it impossible for spiders to make webs around it. You just use it on all your window frames. Spiders won’t pass those lines because they sense that they can"t make webs there. I use the one from Yachticon, don’t know if you can order it everywhere, but it works wonders.
I’ve seen many of you just chilling in your respective corners, not wanting fuckall to do with us gigantic bastards. With you, there were no mosquitoes.
You homies were chill af, and though it took great effort to overcome the fear, you and yours did not disappoint. Yours have quietly and peacefully traveled my home, often very close to me, and I watched you watching me.
Respect, spiderhomies. Mad respect, and may I continue to remember that you really just want to live, just as we do.
your spiderbabies are terrifying af and could you guys pls make bedbugs your mortal enemy pls bc fuck those assholes thank you for your fantastic work kbye 🤘 rock on spiderhomies
Most spiders do eat bed bugs!
Baby orb weavers are yellow with a black dot on their butt. Not terrifying at all.
Adult orb weavers are so big they give people heart attacks when they accidentally walk into a web. They don’t need to bite you at all.
I have 2 spider homies in my bedroom. The past summer they caught a lot of bugs and now they’re just chilling. As long as they don’t enter the no-no zone they can stay. Jumping spiders are always welcome too
Yup. I don’t like having spiders in the house. Know what i like having in the house less? Flies. So the spiders stay.
Somehow I’ve still got both… and house centipedes.
Cause they’re the cutest obviously
Why? Spiders are awesome. They take care of any other bugs, and generally mind their own business.
Humans like to kill things, until there is nothing left to kill but ourselves.
Ooh, edgy!
I guess so, but it is a serious thing, mass extinction of insects etc. Is in no way a good thing.
