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.
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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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.
tell that to the cellar spiders that keep getting into my apartment and dying in the corner of the ceiling.
I like spirderbros.
We have no guarantee that you are human, you could be a spider on the internet spreading pro-Spider sentiment!
There are many spiderbros… we are legion!
Or worse, they could be Australian!
A cockroach spreading anti-spider propaganda.
We have no guarantees that you’re human, you could be a mosquito spreading anti-spider sentiment!
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.
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.
Just chiming in to represent the small minority of people who strongly dislike spiders in our houses
But spiders in your house get rid of spiders in your house. So, if there were no spiders in your house then you’d get so many spiders in your house.
it entirely depends on size and species, but primarily size
under 5mm legspan? could not give less of a fuck, try not to accidentally get quished and godspeed 🫡
Larger than that? best fucking be a jumping spider, or an orb weaver sitting on the outside of the window.
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
I’ve seen many of you just chilling in your respective corners, not wanting fuckall to do with us gigantic bastards. With you, there were no mosquitoes.
You homies were chill af, and though it took great effort to overcome the fear, you and yours did not disappoint. Yours have quietly and peacefully traveled my home, often very close to me, and I watched you watching me.
Respect, spiderhomies. Mad respect, and may I continue to remember that you really just want to live, just as we do.
your spiderbabies are terrifying af and could you guys pls make bedbugs your mortal enemy pls bc fuck those assholes thank you for your fantastic work kbye 🤘 rock on spiderhomies
Most spiders do eat bed bugs!
Baby orb weavers are yellow with a black dot on their butt. Not terrifying at all.
Adult orb weavers are so big they give people heart attacks when they accidentally walk into a web. They don’t need to bite you at all.
I will take spiders over moths any day tbh
They make the best pets. You don’t even need to feed them.
Spiders eat bedbugs, so that’s nice.
I don’5 want a spider min my bed thought
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.
The Australian ones (whitetails) are more populous, venemous, and aggressive than you could imagine in summer. I’d have a kill one inside my house almost every day.
It probably doesn’t help that our houses seal worse than an average tent.
Now I have to lookup statistics on how many people die in Oz land due to these demon spawns. Mercy on your soul.
Did a quick google, they aren’t lethal, and they hide from people and eat other spiders, so they’re one of the good ones. Surprisingly very few people die from the horrors of Australia, they’ve got a really robust setup for getting people anti-venom. Virtually no one dies from spiders in Australia, the last reported death was in 1980.
afaik our anti venom program is so good we pretty much supply the entire world with anti venom
TIL
I’m surprised it’s so low. My brother in law just sent me a photo posing with the red-bellied black snake that he found in his suburban Melbourne backyard today.
Couldn’t pay me losing my virginity to make me do that. lol
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
All my pets are spiders and they don’t even know they’re my pets.
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.
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.
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!
one about that size decided to make a web across my bathroom door. good morning, whoa.
I still have pictures of the asshole orb weaver that decided to bar me from leaving my house at freaking five o’clock in the morning. That was a very, very unpleasant realization. Then there was another one that decided to make my entire cabin (it was a one roomer, so very wide for the kitchen/living room) it’s webspace. Like, I’m okay if they build a web across my window, or in a corner, but not in my areas. They aren’t paying enough of the rent to get that privilege.
run into them outside this time of year, walking to the car. used fly zapper on inside guy. darwin
