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Spiders are great to have in your house. Iâve got big house centipedes too. The poor pest control guy doesnât get a penny off of me. No termites, no silverfish, earwigsâŠetc. 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!
If spiders are in your house, then something for them to eat is in your house too.
Massive lie ,how come old closed house are full of spider and their never ending web?
cannibalistic spiders?
So there is a type of spray used on boats to get rid of spiders. As you can imagine, having an in closed space near the water is prime real estate for spiders. The spray works by making it impossible for spiders to make webs around it. You just use it on all your window frames. Spiders wonât pass those lines because they sense that they can"t make webs there. I use the one from Yachticon, donât know if you can order it everywhere, but it works wonders.
Somehow, my kid grew up afraid of bugs. He moved back in with me recently. I had a spider buddy in the kitchen, small, with a web in a corner. Heâd been there all summer. We didnât bother each other.
My kid got rid of him.
Fortunately, my kid doesnât go in the garage much. Heâd find the black widow residing in a corner which has been home to a black widow since before I moved in almost 30 years ago. I bought the house new-built, she moved in before me. She doesnât bother me, I donât bother her. In fact, Iâm the interloper in her history. (Obviously, not the same black widow.)
Can you please write a metal-as-fuck version of Charlotteâs Web where your black widow blood line watches you work on cars, or just live life or whatever?
I am imagining her as kind of a black leather halloween catwoman punk or slutty version of the original, but only you can tell her real story.
I wonder how many kids get bit by black widowâs because their parents didnât recognize them as dangerous
I donât know how to tell you but spiders only live up to 3 years. You missed a number of funerals.
You can in fact spend that 10 dollars youâve saved on a fly trap plant that attracts spiders and beetles.
However youâd find the population of other insects going unchecked. So youâd have to spend another life savings on another plant for whatever replaces the spiders.
We literally call the useful, less webbing ones house sider in german.
All my pets are spiders and they donât even know theyâre my pets.
I have a pet wolf spider that lives in the room my wife keeps her plants in. Except it isnât a pet because I donât feed or care for it and if my wife finds it sheâll insist I move it outside.
Thing is, Iâm 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 itâs doing a great job keeping the flies from leaving that room. So Shelob stays.
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 2 spider homies in my bedroom. The past summer they caught a lot of bugs and now theyâre just chilling. As long as they donât enter the no-no zone they can stay. Jumping spiders are always welcome too
Yup. I donât like having spiders in the house. Know what i like having in the house less? Flies. So the spiders stay.
Somehow Iâve still got both⊠and house centipedes.
Cause theyâre the cutest obviously
This is the gift that keeps giving. I am sending to my friends who fear spiders.
I am THAT friend!
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.
Happy to have spiders in my home until I find one in the shower with me. They donât understand how dangerous the shower is for them; Iâve lost too many good spiders to drowning.
You probably havenât. Spiders can trap air with the hair on their skin and can survive a trip down the drain. Theyâll probably climb back up again once itâs dry.
The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
down came the rain and washed the spider out
but vice versa
Spiders eat bedbugs, so thatâs nice.
Spiders eat bedbugs, so thatâs nice.
Cockroaches eat bedbugs too. But I donât think spiders or roaches can eat them fast enough to outdo their reproductive rate.
I donâ5 want a spider min my bed thought /jk
Relax kiddos. Theyâre looking for bugs, not your bloated ass. Leave em alone for christ sakesâŠ
Unless you live in Australia then Iâm pretty sure theyâre hunting you.
The Australian ones (whitetails) are more populous, venemous, and aggressive than you could imagine in summer. Iâd have a kill one inside my house almost every day.
It probably doesnât 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.
Iâm surprised itâs 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.
Did a quick google, they arenât lethal, and they hide from people and eat other spiders, so theyâre one of the good ones. Surprisingly very few people die from the horrors of Australia, theyâve 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.
i like to have a couple wolf spiders hanging around. they stay out of my way and eat the more annoying bugs.
Just chiming in to represent the small minority of people who strongly dislike spiders in our houses
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 đ«Ą
Larger than that? best fucking be a jumping spider, or an orb weaver sitting on the outside of the window.
But spiders in your house get rid of spiders in your house. So, if there were no spiders in your house then youâd get so many spiders in your house.
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 oâclock 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) itâs webspace. Like, Iâm okay if they build a web across my window, or in a corner, but not in my areas. They arenât 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
Bologna. There was never a flying insect in my cabin, and yet two assholes decided to build giant webs in the middle. Spiders arenât intelligent enough to track insect movement patterns and then build their webs.
If they bother you that much just use ostrich eggs.
Thanks I will.
Never got fear of spiders, i learned pretty quick they arent dangerous.
I dare you to sleep in a bad full of them.
Iâve 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 đ€ 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 donât need to bite you at all.
I will take spiders over moths any day tbh
Hereâs a flamethrower
You can put your life savings right over here
Spiders donât go where thereâs no food for them. You donât have a spider problem, theyâre trying to fix your insect problem.
tell that to the cellar spiders that keep getting into my apartment and dying in the corner of the ceiling.
This is why I welcome them in. I donât have screens on my windows, so in the summer, flies get in. The spiders are why I donât have a fly problem.
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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Seriously. I have zero problem when I see spiders in my house. Iâm like, âOh, good. Keep it up, bro.â Totally happy to have arachnids around.
They make the best pets. You donât even need to feed them.
I like spirderbros.
We have no guarantee that you are human, you could be a spider on the internet spreading pro-Spider sentiment!
A cockroach spreading anti-spider propaganda.
We have no guarantees that youâre human, you could be a mosquito spreading anti-spider sentiment!
Or worse, they could be Australian!
There are many spiderbros⊠we are legion!
rekabis@lemmy.ca âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Animals go where the food is.
This is why ants invade homes and create nests out in the yard. This is why spiders set up shop inside your home and mice scurry in the corners.
If you donât want animals like insects and rodents in your house, eliminate all possible sources of food. While some will always work their way in, the lack of food will mean theyâll always die quickly or leave just as fast as they came.