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Mecore

Yo.. is this a random gw2 post???

So far the few I have around here give me a wide berth. Long as that continues we can all coexist

I agree, but I make exceptions for black widow spiders. I once even found one nesting in my car's trunk.

My partner has turned me into a spood fan. I oscillated between being scared of them and liking them in my childhood, but after meeting him, I think of them as weird little guys that hang around the house

One thing to notice Most animals that are inside your house, are inside your house for a reason. And if you put them outside to "live" they will just die if they cannot return to a suitable environment with a reliable source of food and proper cover from the weather and predators.

So, sorry for taking away the guilt free feeling of putting an animal outside thinking it will live a long happy life in the wilderness.

To be fair, the spider will likely be responsible for the deaths of many other insects, but honestly, I'm ok with that. They can live in my house rent free if they keep the other bugs from making my home their home.... And they don't crawl on me. That's just begging to be killed....

Spiders are bros.

I only wish spiders wanted to be hugged and kissed as much I want to hug and kiss them. Actually, this applies to a lot of things.

Related: A story of North America

It turns out to be an allegory for the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I didn't know that for a long time and appreciated it at face value quite a lot.

i can either kill them by falling or immediately.

perhaps if they wanted to live inside my house they should have considered not going out of their way to make my instincts scream for death?

Do what orb weavers do: set up a web and stay there, and if you have to move do so slowly.
Respect me and i'll respect you, run at me with your too many legs and i will send you back to god for adjustments.

I think they die outside or come back in.

to continue the story: so, he was released in the wilderness and the other 2 spiders saw him all clean and posh that decided to beat him up and mug him.

Unless the spider in question is a likely danger/hazard, leaving them be is generally my policy. They don't usually bother me. That said, the time a calisoga spider got in the house, it caused a visceral fear reaction. I didn't kill it though, just got safety glasses and trapped it before releasing it outside (I didn't know that it was not a tarantula at the time).

Spiders deserve to live, Mosquitoes deserve to die

Spiders are comrades in my ongoing extermination war against against mosquitoes.

My rule has always been simple. It I'm in its house (outside), it's not my business. If it's in my house, I have to make a choice. That choice was always smash (I'm arachnophobic), but my daughter has led me down the paragon path and I now save more than half of all spiders inside of my house. Maybe more. I don't get that many spiders in my house here in arid western Canada.

i love spiders, they are such helpful creatures.

My cat says

👀🍽😼

(eats it then spits it out, then try to eat it again, repeat until dead)

Sorry spiders, I'm team Cat.

Even though I still have arachnophobia, I've intentionally lived with spiders for over a decade and I've not had issues with mosquitoes even if I left all of my windows open. And my roommates are thriving!

They're very chill roommates, too! After about 1-2 months of adjusting to living together in my old apartment, they stopped spinning webs in the areas which I used frequently and focused on the zones which I left out for them - ceiling corners, gaps between walls and furniture, etc. I did occasionally clean up their old webs every now and again (while taking great care not to bother the spiders themselves) because they also gathered a lot of dust. But they'd replace the old webbing in a matter of days.

And they never developed overpopulation issues, even though I did see them producing egg sacks regularly. I was expecting to drown in spiders by the end of the first year of trying this arrangement, but I never counted more than 15-20 spiders apartment-wide.