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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I like spiders until they bite me when I sleep. Then peace is over.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well then stop sleeping with spiders. Geez. /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Prude. /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, me too. Fortunately that has never ever happened.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Spider bro is my ally against the wool moths, at the moment. If I catch one I'm putting it in the closet.

They earn their keep.

We had aphids in the garden last year. Wolf spider moved in, big fat guy. Made short work of em. Wolf spider is welcome among my lettuce any day.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Those spiders you find inside may be of a type completely adapted to living indoors with humans. Putting one outside means death.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Big this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I made this mistake with a stink bug when it was winter. It was ok with being on the piece of paper I had it on. When I opened the door and the cold air hit it, it backed away towards me. I set it down and it stopped moving. Oops. :(

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

My wife and all my kids are deathly afraid of spiders. I put them all outside and I'm happy that's the example I'm setting.

Spider bro, spider bro, keeping that fly population low.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have severe arachnophobia, i can't kill spiders i am too afraid of them. But my cat is a ruthless killer and never fails to make them dissappear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe I can't get close enough to kill it, but the spider spray can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

...outside. They deserve to live outside. I unapologetically squish insects and arachnids alike inside my home.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I saw a couple recluse spiders in my apartment several months ago and maybe I’m an idiot, but I left them alone. They were truly more scared of me than I was of them. They don’t want to bother me and only will if I threaten them. So I left them alone and they just chilled in their “recluse” hiding spots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have a door spider. It lives in a crack in my entry door. I'm not sure of it is the same spider as last year, but it makes trap web near my door frame. I think of it as bug protection, it's eating something I don't want in my house.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Uhhhh....I would not fuck around with recluses. One bite will melt a golf ball size hole in your flesh. If you really want, you can catch and release but you for sure don't want them in your house. If they breed, you're looking at a serious problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Widows are more common in my area and I do the same.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree that we shouldn't disturb nature, but let's not forget that animals kill each other all the time. There's no such thing as ethics in nature.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What if we are the ethics in nature

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My preferred method is using a piece of paper, slide it gently under them and lift.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Tried and true! I also add a jar because they make me jump, I can't help it lol. I have had big orb spiders crawl on me in the woods while climbing in the US and we have large spiders here incl. the giant English house spider here. They are both the size of hands. Freak me the fuck out haha.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have so many spiders on the lower floor of the place I'm in now I've given up on even bringing them outside. I identify what they are to keep track if we have an uptick in dangerous ones. If it is a particularly gross one it goes in the garage to war it out with the cellar spiders otherwise I just shoo them under furniture so I don't have to think about it. Damnit I'm turning into my dad...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

They keep the bad stuff out, I figure. I try to put them in my plant pots if I find them around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Asian Lady beetles on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 weeks ago

text reading "when someone asks me to kill any of the spiders in my house" above a picture of Jean-Luc Picard saying "they are not vermin, they are citizens of the Federation"