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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Spiders and I have an agreement: don't spin webs at people height. Spiders get the corners, ceilings and anywhere we don't walk. If you try to spin a web on the bananas, RIP.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

As long as the size doesn't bug you, you'd probably enjoy huntsman spiders. They prefer eating other insects and even other spiders, and generally leave people alone, even run away from us. They dont spin webs, they eat any bug they can get, including venomous insects. They love eating mosquitoes and cockroachs. If for some reason you feel like attacking one, dont, not only are they helpful, they can jump quite a distance and are faster than you at their peak speed.

This post was made by the Friends of the Huntsmen.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That’s a no from me dog. If I saw that in my house, I’d move. As in, move fast to the door and never look back. He can have the house, and all my shit. I’m taking my dog and getting the fuck out of dodge.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just don't move somehwere that has any really venomous spiders if you're uncomfortable with the Huntsmen, because the smaller spiders Huntsmen scare away like recluses, funnel webs, and black widows are venomous enough to kill both of you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh I understand. It’s more of a reflex instinct than anything else.

Case in point, I have a lot of spiders around the outside of my house. The other day I was trying to examine a flood light that was not working correctly, and of course there are a lot of webs (and cobwebs) around it. I go to step up, and in a split second I noticed I’m literally face to face with a spider in a huge web. If I had taken one more step, we’d have been kissing.

As much as i fear spiders, I am usually ok with being in their presence – assuming I can readily avoid them if need be. But this time, well, it was very upsetting to me. Maybe to it too, because by the morning it had packed its web up and left. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It's kind of funny you mention that because some of the worst injuries caused by spiders that generally avoid humans are the startling reactions to seeing one where you're not expecting one, like while on a ladder or even driving. Don't mistake my meaning of advocating for these spiders, I'd be suepr freaked out too. It's hard to have any other kind of first reaction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The spider is in the door handle. RIP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I know what you’re referring to, and yes that freaks me out. 😳

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is why I love jumping spiders.

I’d be terrified of a huntsmen spider, but I love jumping spiders i leave them be whenever I see them, knowing that they will snack on all the fruit flies, moths, and mosquitoes that make it into my house.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

My wife is arachnophobic, but likes jumping spiders. Most of the phobia seems to be in the legs, since they have such stumpy ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I love jumpers because they're cute. The anime sized front facing eyes and movements that make them look so damn curious all the time—I just can't get over those.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

My area doesn't have huntsmen unfortunately. We do have wolf spiders though which are similar I think. They're lil guys though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I've walked through so many spider webs over the past few weeks. I do find them very rude. And it's just like, man, if you put your web where I'm going to walk through it then it sucks for you too, then you gotta go rebuild it.

I still don't kill them, though. Just relocate them to somewhere sufficiently far away that hopefully they don't build their next web in the same place.

Except for one spider that I maybe killed. I walked into its web and it stood on my arm and bit me so I flicked it away. No idea where it went or whether it survived. But honestly, what a jerk.