From Derek Friend
Ok… so my empathy may stretch a little too far.
This is my Spider pet/friend… she’s always making a web on my loader. Well, Monday I backed into a tree limb and I was worried she was injured or gone.
My fear was true yesterday, she didn’t make a web yesterday morning for the first time in months, and I felt like it was my fault so I felt awful all freaking day. I literally looked over an hour trying to find her in the crevices of my loader. NOWHERE!!!
Got to work this morning and here she is in all her glory. 🤣🤣🤣 I was so freakin happy.
I think my empathy needs to be dialed back some because my soul hurt for a spider. 🥲
Jeffersonville, Kentucky
(Her name is Orbitz)
You are a kind spider bro, Derek! ♥️
I never disliked the spiders because I knew they were good in principle.
One summer I had a huge orb weaver on my porch, but also a ton of moths that would swarm me whenever I’d go through the door. I started catching the moths in a little jar and shaking them out at the web. That spider got pretty huge, and in return, I got to learn spiders are our friends.
The moths never came back in such numbers, and I’ve had a comfortable number of porch spiders ever since.
Inside, I usually only encounter little jumping spiders. They are cute, but don’t want to be friends, so I just leave them to their business.
Most people find them creepy, but they’re probably the most actually useful animals for us to keep around.
All animals are neither good nor bad, they just are.
Depending how one defines “good” - well, imo they’re all good.