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Does this make you think differently of spiders? (Original Post) True Dough Dec 2024 OP
No, cuz I love them anyway. Ferrets are Cool Dec 2024 #1
I love spiders! defacto7 Dec 2024 #2
🌞 Good Morning, True! I am terrified of them. ... littlemissmartypants Dec 2024 #3
YIKES! True Dough Dec 2024 #13
Just a number to me. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 2024 #22
A number True Dough Dec 2024 #23
Hahaha! Thankfully... littlemissmartypants Dec 2024 #24
Charlotte's Web did it for me Phentex Dec 2024 #4
Sorry, not a fan of spiders! Emile Dec 2024 #5
Spiders are an vital part of our ecosystem 🕸️🕷️ Clouds Passing Dec 2024 #6
I don't mind spiders Marthe48 Dec 2024 #7
My wife True Dough Dec 2024 #14
Hah Marthe48 Dec 2024 #16
I had two pet tarantulas when I lived in Arizona. sinkingfeeling Dec 2024 #8
I think spiders are cool. :) Solly Mack Dec 2024 #9
Spiders rock! JoseBalow Dec 2024 #10
I've always respected spiders. We lived in the country and my mom would always carefully carry out catbyte Dec 2024 #11
I don't kill spiders in my home, I evict them Skittles Dec 2024 #12
Is there True Dough Dec 2024 #15
the last one was pretty funny Skittles Dec 2024 #17
The webs are pretty amazing. Google "frost on spiderwebs" IcyPeas Dec 2024 #18
I have no problem with spiders Kali Dec 2024 #19
So cute! You can barely feel a tarantula walk on your arm. I had a pet Chilean Rose Ziggysmom Dec 2024 #20
No goes for snakes and UTUSN Dec 2024 #21

defacto7

(14,162 posts)
2. I love spiders!
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:33 AM
Dec 2024

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 ...

littlemissmartypants

(33,910 posts)
3. 🌞 Good Morning, True! I am terrified of them. ...
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:52 AM
Dec 2024

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.

❤️



Have a great day!

True Dough

(26,854 posts)
13. YIKES!
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:00 PM
Dec 2024

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

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


littlemissmartypants

(33,910 posts)
24. Hahaha! Thankfully...
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 08:37 AM
Dec 2024

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!

❤️👋

Emile

(42,478 posts)
5. Sorry, not a fan of spiders!
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 11:01 AM
Dec 2024

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

Clouds Passing

(8,022 posts)
6. Spiders are an vital part of our ecosystem 🕸️🕷️
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 11:25 AM
Dec 2024

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. 🐾

Marthe48

(23,224 posts)
7. I don't mind spiders
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 11:28 AM
Dec 2024

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.

True Dough

(26,854 posts)
14. My wife
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:01 PM
Dec 2024

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

JoseBalow

(9,551 posts)
10. Spiders rock!
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 04:48 PM
Dec 2024
(2:28)

* Pete Townsend once said that this was Jimi Hendrix's favorite Who song.

catbyte

(39,186 posts)
11. I've always respected spiders. We lived in the country and my mom would always carefully carry out
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 05:49 PM
Dec 2024

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.

Skittles

(172,000 posts)
12. I don't kill spiders in my home, I evict them
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 08:35 PM
Dec 2024

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

True Dough

(26,854 posts)
15. Is there
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:02 PM
Dec 2024

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

Skittles

(172,000 posts)
17. the last one was pretty funny
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:23 PM
Dec 2024

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

Kali

(56,851 posts)
19. I have no problem with spiders
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 12:28 AM
Dec 2024

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...

Ziggysmom

(4,136 posts)
20. So cute! You can barely feel a tarantula walk on your arm. I had a pet Chilean Rose
Sat Dec 14, 2024, 12:57 AM
Dec 2024

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

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