Living in an area with a lot of Black Widows and Brown Recluses… This isn’t entirely true. It’s also morally correct to protect yourself, depending on the type of spider.
Non-venomous spiders are always chill though.
Black widows can go outside, but they generally like to stay outside anyways. I’ve never seen one in the house.
Brown recluse love being indoors.
Yup. If it isn’t a friendly neighborhood jumping spider, I’m bringing a cup and a piece of paper and it’s out with the spider. Not risking the life of my tiny dog.
They can live in my house, that’s fine. But why you gotta be in my shower, after I’ve just gotten undressed? You can get the fuck outta my house, perverted spider.
Don’t mind me, just reusing my memes (it’s better than recycling)
I once killed a giant house spider that was stuck in my tub. Family demanded I do it. I still feel bad about it.
I can deal with that even. I drew the line, though, when the spider that was hanging out on the ceiling above the shower for a week decided it was time to descend and introduce itself in the middle of my shower.
I don’t often scream like a woman in an old horror film, but when they do that I fuckin do!
Also, why do they gotta have all their legs fully extended out as they slowly descend?
They’re trying to protect you from insects that might have the audacity to try to eat your soap or climb into your scrubby things.
In my neck of the woods spiders need to be identified before I can let them stay. Just last year I found multiple widow spiders and a brown recluse in my apartment building, goodness I’m glad to be out of there.
I let widows be, if they’re not somewhere that humans will be putting their hands, or that kids can reach. Recluses tho, I’m afraid a recluse sighting calls for the real insecticide.
But I’ve cut way back on treating anything else just to make sure the orb web weavers can live here, it was like Silent Spring the year I applied according to manufacturer instructions
Every year a few bold jumping spiders move into my house and they keep any and all bugs away. I love them and they’re so fucking cute. I watched my current male, Captain Jack (he started his adventure in my house by living in a box of captain crunch), go after a fly last night. It was great.
I accidentally rolled over a jumping spider with my chair, it made me sad.
The brown recluse can get fucked though.
Brown recluses suck. Jumping spiders are just dogs with more legs. They can remember human faces and will even play with humans
Octokittens!!
Same with house centipedes. They are friends, even if they look like something out of a sci fi movie.
Tucked away in a corner? Fine. Skittering, creeping, or otherwise ambulating across my floor? Nyet nein nope evicted.
My house stays 6 to 8 months completely closed. When windows or doors are open, there’s always a bug screen. So, if I leave the tiny spider alone, it will probably die of starvation. The morally correct thing is to take it outside.
I prefer to exclude all uninvited critters as well. But i believe little spiders can get some nourishment from eating their old web when it’s full of dust, which as we know contains a lot of shed human skin cells.
If they ain’t payin’ rent, they can get fuckin’ bent.
I try to kindly remove them where possible, but my empathy-to-arachnophobia ratio has a fine limit.
Jumping spiders are free to do as they please, however. Those mfs rule
If they’re alive, that means they’re eating, which means they’re doing pest control.
That’s great, but I don’t want anything with more than four limbs in my apartment
Had a window spider in my bathroom that I fed regularly. It molted one day and was huge - went from skittle size to dime size (including legs).
It died a few weeks later. Not sure why.
Yea that’s pretty much my policy except for spiders in my bed. Also notorious exceptions have been female huntsman spiders in summer and Sydney funnelwebs.
If they keep a respectable distance then they can stay. If they get too close they are outta here
If I didn’t relocate them my cats would kill and possibly eat them. It’s better for everyone this way
Excep the cats
If your abdomen is visible from a meter away, you’re getting evicted. I don’t want to know what your guts look like when I accidentally step or sit on you.
It’s always don’t kill them. How do I get more spiders damn it?
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