Spiders are great to have in your house. I’ve got big house centipedes too. The poor pest control guy doesn’t get a penny off of me. No termites, no silverfish, earwigs…etc. Sometimes I get ants in the kitchen, but that is easily controlled with some cleaning and cinnamon.
Seriously, those spiders are doing you a favor. Let them do their thing.
I forced my parents to stop wasting money and pumping their yard full of chemicals about 5 years ago. They went from being inundated with mosquitoes and stinkbugs (and absolutely nothing else) to now having what feels like every species of orbweaver under the sun amongst several other spood types, and lizards, and bees, and beetles; it’s glorious.
Now that my 8-legged freaks are back in town, though, the mosquitoes and stinkbugs are down to 1/3rd of what they were before. In fact, I’ve barely seen any and a few of the Joro spiders around here are FAT. Abdomens the size of my thumb!
Why? Spiders are awesome. They take care of any other bugs, and generally mind their own business.
Humans like to kill things, until there is nothing left to kill but ourselves.
Ooh, edgy!
I guess so, but it is a serious thing, mass extinction of insects etc. Is in no way a good thing.
Somehow, my kid grew up afraid of bugs. He moved back in with me recently. I had a spider buddy in the kitchen, small, with a web in a corner. He’d been there all summer. We didn’t bother each other.
My kid got rid of him.
Fortunately, my kid doesn’t go in the garage much. He’d find the black widow residing in a corner which has been home to a black widow since before I moved in almost 30 years ago. I bought the house new-built, she moved in before me. She doesn’t bother me, I don’t bother her. In fact, I’m the interloper in her history. (Obviously, not the same black widow.)
Can you please write a metal-as-fuck version of Charlotte’s Web where your black widow blood line watches you work on cars, or just live life or whatever?
I am imagining her as kind of a black leather halloween catwoman punk or slutty version of the original, but only you can tell her real story.
I don’t know how to tell you but spiders only live up to 3 years.
Good news: You missed a number of funerals.
Bad News: you missed a few birthdays
I wonder how many kids get bit by black widow’s because their parents didn’t recognize them as dangerous
I have 2 spider homies in my bedroom. The past summer they caught a lot of bugs and now they’re just chilling. As long as they don’t enter the no-no zone they can stay. Jumping spiders are always welcome too
Yup. I don’t like having spiders in the house. Know what i like having in the house less? Flies. So the spiders stay.
Somehow I’ve still got both… and house centipedes.
Cause they’re the cutest obviously
All my pets are spiders and they don’t even know they’re my pets.
I have a pet wolf spider that lives in the room my wife keeps her plants in. Except it isn’t a pet because I don’t feed or care for it and if my wife finds it she’ll insist I move it outside.
Thing is, I’m pretty sure I have moved it outside. Several times. It hangs out in one of the plants, and my wife likes to move them outside sometimes. And it’s doing a great job keeping the flies from leaving that room. So Shelob stays.
I feel like some of them know. I have one spider in my shower and every time i take a shower i forget and almost drown it. Then i say something like: gosh darnit Toby, get outa here and i put her in her usual spot again.
Spiders don’t go where there’s no food for them. You don’t have a spider problem, they’re trying to fix your insect problem.
Seriously. I have zero problem when I see spiders in my house. I’m like, “Oh, good. Keep it up, bro.” Totally happy to have arachnids around.
Yeah, I think of them as independent contractor pest control, they come and go as they please and as long as they don’t interfere with my day to day, we’re all good.
They do good work and don’t complain.
This is why I welcome them in. I don’t have screens on my windows, so in the summer, flies get in. The spiders are why I don’t have a fly problem.
I have macro shots of a tiny jumping spider hauling a fly behind a bathroom pic. She is most welcome to stay.
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If spiders are in your house, then something for them to eat is in your house too.
Massive lie ,how come old closed house are full of spider and their never ending web?
cannibalistic spiders?
Umm no? Cannibalism is least part of a diet of a spider
Relax kiddos. They’re looking for bugs, not your bloated ass. Leave em alone for christ sakes…
Unless you live in Australia then I’m pretty sure they’re hunting you.
Unless you live in Australia then I’m pretty sure they’re hunting you.
can confirm. am hiding in the wardrobe right now. send help
Can second. White tails under the covers is a no-no.
Spiders eat bedbugs, so that’s nice.
Spiders eat bedbugs, so that’s nice.
Cockroaches eat bedbugs too. But I don’t think spiders or roaches can eat them fast enough to outdo their reproductive rate during an infestation.
I don’5 want a spider min my bed thought
Animals go where the food is.
This is why ants invade homes and create nests out in the yard. This is why spiders set up shop inside your home and mice scurry in the corners.
If you don’t want animals like insects and rodents in your house, eliminate all possible sources of food. While some will always work their way in, the lack of food will mean they’ll always die quickly or leave just as fast as they came.
So there is a type of spray used on boats to get rid of spiders. As you can imagine, having an in closed space near the water is prime real estate for spiders. The spray works by making it impossible for spiders to make webs around it. You just use it on all your window frames. Spiders won’t pass those lines because they sense that they can"t make webs there. I use the one from Yachticon, don’t know if you can order it everywhere, but it works wonders.
I like spirderbros.
We have no guarantee that you are human, you could be a spider on the internet spreading pro-Spider sentiment!
A cockroach spreading anti-spider propaganda.
There are many spiderbros… we are legion!
Or worse, they could be Australian!
We have no guarantees that you’re human, you could be a mosquito spreading anti-spider sentiment!
Happy to have spiders in my home until I find one in the shower with me. They don’t understand how dangerous the shower is for them; I’ve lost too many good spiders to drowning.
You probably haven’t. Spiders can trap air with the hair on their skin and can survive a trip down the drain. They’ll probably climb back up again once it’s dry.
The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
down came the rain and washed the spider out
but vice versa
You can in fact spend that 10 dollars you’ve saved on a fly trap plant that attracts spiders and beetles.
However you’d find the population of other insects going unchecked. So you’d have to spend another life savings on another plant for whatever replaces the spiders.
We literally call the useful, less webbing ones house spider in german.
