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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
They make the best pets. You don’t even need to feed them.
I will take spiders over moths any day tbh
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.
All my pets are spiders and they don’t even know they’re my pets.
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.
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. He’d been there all summer. We didn’t bother each other.
My kid got rid of him.
Fortunately, my kid doesn’t go in the garage much. He’d 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 doesn’t bother me, I don’t bother her. In fact, I’m the interloper in her history. (Obviously, not the same black widow.)
I wonder how many kids get bit by black widow’s because their parents didn’t recognize them as dangerous
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 won’t pass those lines because they sense that they can"t make webs there. I use the one from Yachticon, don’t know if you can order it everywhere, but it works wonders.
I remember hearing odor from ostrich eggs repel insects you could give it a try.
Thanks I will.
You can in fact spend that 10 dollars you’ve saved on a fly trap plant that attracts spiders and beetles.
However you’d find the population of other insects going unchecked. So you’d have to spend another life savings on another plant for whatever replaces the spiders.
Here’s a flamethrower
You can put your life savings right over here
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 don’t 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 they’ll always die quickly or leave just as fast as they came.
