Spiders are our friends. We'd be overtaken by other insects if they didn't exist. They eat a huge amount of meat. Actually, they could theoretically eat every human being on earth is one year! Wait ... thinking ...

My grandfather almost died from a black widow spider bite when I was a little girl. My memories are very vivid.

I was bitten by one on my stomach and ended up in the Emergency Department with severe anaphylaxis. I went home from the hospital with a large swollen pus filled area that took several days to heal.

I stayed up all night once pulling furniture away from the walls of my apartment (with brown carpet throughout) after seeing a big brown spider in the living room. I never found the darn thing but if I had it definitely would have been history.

Nope is the perfect sentiment, afaic.

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Have a great day!

After reading that, spiders move back into the bad camp for me!

Arachnophobia and triskaidekaphobia, LMSP? Or does the latter not bother you?

that doesn't bite and without eight creepy legs!

If that were the case I'd have to use caution every time I used an adding machine or set my alarm.

LY!

Thanks so much for being you!

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I never kill them. I leave them alone or take them outside

They bite and if you ever been bit by one, you would know they can leave a nasty wound.

Although whenever I find one in the house, I try to catch it and put it outside. Black widows are a different story. They are abundant here and potentially fatal. Tarantulas in the wild are amusing to watch. It must be the paws. 🐾

I move them if they are in the wrong place and leave them alone otherwise. I'm not crazy about the webs and cobwebs. My husband was better about clearing them out than I am.

tell me to clear the cobwebs every once in a while. But she's looking me in the eye when she says it!

Just don't make any important decisions until you've cleared things up!

any spiders that happened to get into the house. She particularly loved Daddy Long Legs spiders, so I've come by my love for them naturally.

I don't mind them existing but I don't want to live with them

formal, legal paperwork that goes along with those evictions, Skittles? One can never be too careful. It's a litigious country!

he ran under the fridge, but then came out encased in a dust bunny and was freaking out but not moving much.....made it a LOT easier

and if you look around my house you could tell. wish they were a little cleaner, though. between the dust and fuzz stuck on old webs, the discarded wings and "mummies," and the little tiny bird droppings on things under them...

Tarantula for over 15 years. Her name was Morticia. I miss her, but the husband says a big NO to adopting another tarantula.