Killing spiders is a scam by big fly/mosquito/insert insect of choice.
Right, spiders at home are very usefull
Second, find a take-away container, scoop the spider into the container
What, like an excavator?
We let huntsman spiders live in our houses, they’re harmless and keep other insects down. That one has been eating well. They’re not often that big
Yes, I know that Huntsman are calm and not dangerous for humans ¹, as mostly the bigger spiders are not, dangerous are some smaller ones (few, also in Australia), but anyway I would try to sleep with my mouth closed.
I’m sure they would only venture onto you if they were persuing something that already ran onto you
You’re big and scary and dangerous to something as small as a dinner plate sized spider, they’re not going to risk walking on megafauna (did you know we are megafauna?)
Tiny spiders might not have the perspective to recognise that we’re living things, but they crawl on us when we’re awake. Huntsmans keep a distance from us, and think they’re perfectly camouflaged while they stand still, as they are when they’re not on an ivory white wall
FUCK THAT
Spiders do not deserve this mercy. Kill on sight.
Spiders are keeping your house free of bugs that will eat your food if they find it. They’re working hard and get little thanks.
Spiders ARE bugs.
They are not bugs that will eat your food though, which was the point I made.
But what if the other bugs are my food??
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Also you do NOT want to face an all spider jury one day.
96 eyes all judging me.
You have the right to be judged by a jury of your fears.
Alien invasion!
I love that the bear also uses a cup and napkin 😂
After a shower a giant crab spider dropped out of my towel, instinctually I knew only one of us would leave that bathroom alive.
But little jumping spiders are my buddies
Huntsman spiders are a special case. I don’t think I would do well with a tarantula in my bathroom while I’m naked either.
Exactly. Why do people think killing the spider is what you should do? If they do that, they also cant complain if someone kills them for no reason.
Not all spiders are buddies who will just keep to their website and kill pests. Many are aggressive roaming hunters that just go around biting shit to see if it is edible. And that includes you just sleep or sitting still.
Also, even the nonvenomous spiders have some seriously bad oral hygiene and carry bacteria that causes deep infectious wounds that take months to heal.
Even with all that, if they were just slow or stupid I might take the time to catch and release, but given that the majority are stupid fast, and/or actively trying to leap at me… they gotta die.
Having said that I don’t fuck with them outside, especially the banana spiders, because banana spiders are instantly easy to identify and aren’t interested in starting trouble.website
this is such a cute idea 🥹 now I imagine them running little Wordpress blogs
I guess it depends on what spiders you have there. We have like house spiders here, nothing big or toxic. Harmless.
Ya, we used to have more of the little fat slow white ones (orb weavers I think) around when I was a kid, and other than cobwebs all over the place, they never gave us trouble. I generally try not to mess with them though, or I’ll do a catch and release. But between the Brown Recluse bite I got as a teenager that took almost an entire year to heal and the other non-poisionous bites I have gotten while asleep or watching tv that take 6 weeks to heal, it’s insta-death if any others are found inside my house.
I just realized that I am a spider racist. White and yellow get the gentle touch, but black and brown are going down.I guess I understand that if they are causing so much problems. Ive never lived in a country where they can actually cause harm to humans and are inside houses.
If they survive my cats, rather than kicking them out, I catch and dispatch them inside the house. They more than deserve it.
This brings up a lot of guilt I have for killing so many spotted lantern flies. I hate that it’s so necessary
I understand the metaphor, but I think we as men are the spiders.
Spiders don’t have human rights.
And still we can choose to treat them like a being that deserves to live, isn’t that amazing?
Is not amazing to find one on your clothes, or being bitten by one and having to go to the ER.
Spiders are friends. I will terminate any centipedes found inside my house, though. The bastardly kind, not the house centipedes.
The spiders have their corners in my house. Doesn’t bother me. They eat the pesky flying insects that like to fly in my face.
Hum… I tried to maintain that philosophy until they attracted a wanderer that I was unable to get rid of for 2 days until it ate all the spiders. Also, one of them attacked me, what wasn’t a big issue, but I prefer not to happen again.
Now I kill them all.
I have off-limits places: where I sleep and in the shower. If I can’t reach them and they’re there… unfortunately they get the hand vac. Otherwise, it’s time to bring out and index card and Dedicated Spider Cup. It’s outside if it’s not winter, and basement if it’s winter.
I got some plants over wintering in the garage, and the spider bros have been keeping down the tiny flies that came in the trees. ❤️🕷️
Spider bro.
Spider bro
They can’t look extraordinarily deadly though if they don’t wanna be taken outside - any daddylonglegs lookers are 100% safe to corner chill
I am fine with a few spiders around, but the detente does not extend to eggsacs.
Same here, although they’re not catching much of the current infestation of Maple/Boxelder bugs.
I like their look and dopey panicked movements when they notice you watching them, but the cute looks get old when there’s 20 sunbathing on the wrong side of the kitchen window.
The only spiders I’ve seen want to eat those are cellar spiders, and even that seems reluctant on their part lol. Guess they really taste horrible or something.
Wiki does say tastes bad for birds. Maybe some irritant? I know spiders don’t have taste buds, but chemical sensing hairs near the mouth instead doing the closest spider equivalent.
Edit: their feet taste too? Damn.
Spider steps on boxelder bug
’Eww eww eww get it off!’
This take could swing from normal all the way to unhinged depending on the number and size the spiders
Distant cackling
If a human was knitting gross, sticky white shit on my wall, I think I’d kill them too.
That’s really cute until you apply the “alive in wrong space at wrong time” philosophy to cockroaches and termites. Clean your house and keep the local wildlife outside.
Spiders eat those things. That guy up there called those eating meat hypocrites but they’re a little off missing this fact.
People who save spiders and eat meat do it because they’re not hypocrites. They respect their own kind.
