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Old May 3rd 2017, 7:47 pm
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I love spiders.

Great free pest removers. They eat the pests flying around your home, and rarely bother you. Anything that can get rid of mosquitos and roaches is a thumbs up in my books. I never kill, always remove and let them live. I hope the repayment is Pest Control.
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Old May 3rd 2017, 9:05 pm
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I love spiders.

Great free pest removers. They eat the pests flying around your home, and rarely bother you. Anything that can get rid of mosquitos and roaches is a thumbs up in my books. I never kill, always remove and let them live. I hope the repayment is Pest Control.
Agree with both your points. Spiders are fabulous. Here in the USA the only exceptions seem to be black widows & brown recluses--both of which are distinctive looking enough to tell apart from all the other 'good' spiders.

I too evict large spiders carefully with a glass tumbler & a piece of card, but I usually let a few small ones stay in the corner catching whatever insects make it into the house. Even the most benign spiders have venom to help kill their prey, so you don't want to touch them & risk a bite....
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Old May 3rd 2017, 9:18 pm
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It's not that I hate spiders or are scared of them, it's just that if I see one and then they disappear, I get a bit creeped out by it, because I don't like the thought of them crawling on me. Totally irrational I know, because half the time I probably don't see the spiders in the house in the first place. So there most have been loads of time when if I had been looking in the right place, I would have seen a spider and then it would have disappeared at some stage.

But I totally agree with the points about them being better than mosquitoes and flys and that they are great for catching those. Also, I do try to catch them, I certainly don't kill them on purpose. I'm just glad we don't have huge furry ones here or deadly ones.

Even when we had mice in the house, I humanely caught them and let them go in the woods down the road. I will kill earwigs and mosquitoes though.....
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Originally Posted by WEBlue
Agree with both your points. Spiders are fabulous. Here in the USA the only exceptions seem to be black widows & brown recluses--both of which are distinctive looking enough to tell apart from all the other 'good' spiders.

I too evict large spiders carefully with a glass tumbler & a piece of card, but I usually let a few small ones stay in the corner catching whatever insects make it into the house. Even the most benign spiders have venom to help kill their prey, so you don't want to touch them & risk a bite....
I too tend to ignore them, which isn't too clever as my job entails getting down and dirty in their favourite haunts on a regular basis. I got a wicked bite high up on the inside of my thigh when one took umbridge after crawling up the inside my shorts a couple of weeks ago, the third bite in twelve months....

Mind you, I'll take the odd bite from a spider anytime over a mass ankles attack from fire ants!!!
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You're all fricking weird. Well except for Nutek. The only good spider is a dead one, regardless of whether they do good deeds or kill you. Anything with more than four legs has no place in my world whatever country that may be.
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You're all fricking weird. Well except for Nutek. The only good spider is a dead one, regardless of whether they do good deeds or kill you. Anything with more than four legs has no place in my world whatever country that may be.
I agree

The little jumping ones with rolling eyes freak me out
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Originally Posted by moneypenny20
You're all fricking weird. Well except for Nutek. The only good spider is a dead one, regardless of whether they do good deeds or kill you. Anything with more than four legs has no place in my world whatever country that may be.
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Originally Posted by moneypenny20
You're all fricking weird. Well except for Nutek. The only good spider is a dead one, regardless of whether they do good deeds or kill you. Anything with more than four legs has no place in my world whatever country that may be.
I may be able to cope with spiders, but the thing that I never saw in UK and seems to be in every basement I have ever walked into are those millipedes, or centipedes or whatever they are!! I am so sure they have more than a million legs and are just the most horrible thing that crawls - fast too!!! And I don't see any of those spinning webs and catching mosquitoes or flys!!
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Nothing should have more than four legs.

Ever.

Except chicken buckets, because mmmm... food buckets.
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Old May 4th 2017, 3:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Nutek
Nothing should have more than four legs.

Ever.

Except chicken buckets, because mmmm... food buckets.
chicken buckets also have more than 2 wings
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Originally Posted by Nutek
Nothing should have more than four legs.

Ever.

Except chicken buckets, because mmmm... food buckets.
Originally Posted by becks_r
chicken buckets also have more than 2 wings
Sounds like a Sellafield special
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It's jumping spider season around here, apparently.

The only spider which might be characterised as 'cute'... though maybe not when they're leaping for your face.
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OH - you had to mention leaping at your face!!!!
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Originally Posted by Wintersong
jumping spider
So that's something there is no need for whatever.
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Originally Posted by Nutek
So that's something there is no need for whatever.
Darwin thought otherwise. Do you have an alternative theory?
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