your opinion on Spiders (expect pictures of spiders)
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a primer: cool spiders
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[I]Phidippus audax[/I]
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[I]Theridion grallator[/I]
I like some spiders. I like spiders that spin webs, tend to their webs and stay away from my feet. I like pretty spiders and big spiders unless they're under rocks or chairs or whatever. I love jumping spiders because it's scientifically impossible to hate a jumping spider.
My favorite spiders are either orb-weavers (especially the yellow and black ones in my area) and jumping spiders (especially the Bold jumping spider). I also like tarantulas because they're beautiful animals in their own right. I remember I had a 'pet' bold jumping spider that was in my windowsill, and I'd feed him beetles I shook off the plum tree. He'd pounce on those motherfuckers and I'd root him on and he was my little buddy and I hope he passed on his genetics to create more cool spiders,
post your Spider-pinions, cool spider photos, arachnophobic squealings and what not. spider time sPIDER TIME
I wish I could like them. They seem pretty badass, but they're too damn creepy.
Sometimes I feel like i'm the only person I know who isn't an arachnophobe
I like spiders. When they are not humongas half-animals.
ew
Spiders also can be good cat food,learned from experience
I find a lot of spiders perfectly fine. The only spiders I really can't stand are the harmless daddy longlegs spiders.
[i]Pholcus phalangioides[/i]
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If the spider is outside and out of the way: Ignore it. It's not hurting anything.
If the spider is inside and out of sight: Ignore it. It's keeping me from having to pay for cockroach exterminators.
If the spider is outside and [i]is[/i] in my way: It fucking dies.
If the spider is inside and I can see it: It fucking dies.
I'm by no means an arachnophobe, but I'm also not going to go out of my way because I see one. If it's in my way I'm just going to roll right on over it.
Spiders are a problem when they're near your personal space, and then they disappear.
Most spiders I try to ignore.
But if they cross paths with me, I usually kill them.
[QUOTE=slayer20;39485817]Spiders are a problem when they're near your personal space, and then they disappear.
Most spiders I try to ignore.
But if they cross paths with me, I usually kill them.[/QUOTE]
I freak out more when they disappear. Makes me think it's plotting to kill me once I got to sleep.
If a spider is somewhere inconsequential and small (garage, bottom of entry-stairs, yard): It's fine.
If spider is a known species that kills pests and isn't dangerous: It's fine. (Woodlouse Spider)
(Above goes for all insects. We have mud-daubers in our attic because they kill shit and are non-aggressive.)
If spider is inside and near living areas: Death
If spider is large: Death
If spider is very dangerous: Death (I just love finding Black Window nests all over the yard.)
I hate all insects out of instinct, but I can appreciate their function. I use to have a little (ie ant-sized) Woodlouse Spider Bro at the bottom of my stairs. I kept it there because we had a little bit of woodrot, it kills wood-eating insects, it never laid any webs and it knew to fucking hide when you turned lights on.
I never used to mind them, but one day after getting up, I was scratching my arse and there was this fluffy thing between my cheeks. I new it was just fluff form my clothes, but I thought to myself "Wouldn't it be funny if it was a spider" and then it was, I threw it out of my hand and into the sink, I stood there shaking and turned on the tap to get rid of it.
This is why I don't like spiders.
I wish every last spider died. I've had spiders crawl all over my arms and chest when on my PC before, they scare me and I despise them.
I don't like species with long spindly legs for some reason, but I'm comfy with most of the larger forms.
I particularly like Jumping Spiders, they're so curious and seemingly intelligent compared to most of their kind.
I like spiders, but if they catch me by surprise they can make me wig the fuck out. If I see a spider first and can assess whether it's harmful or not, like a jumping spider or a daddy longlegs then I'll be fine with it. If it lands on my face unexpectedly then I'll freak out and scream.
I do love tarantulas, though. There's some picture floating around the internet of a tarantula with a bow around it that was really cute but I can't find it
Spiders are cool unless they invade my personal space. I never kill them because they're cool.
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Got within a foot of this shit when I was biking on a forest trail.
i love them, but they scare the fuck out of me.
and daddy long legs are my bros. although i read somewhere that they're not actually spiders?
I'm not afraid of them, but they catch me by surprise sometimes
I think they're quite interesting, and they certainly don't freak me out. I just prefer not to have them crawling on me.
I think they're truly fascinating creatures, but they're icky. I wouldn't want to be in contact with one, but I certainly don't mind looking at them in an aquarium.
I live in Sydney so I don't have too many problems with spiders except for the occasional huntsman tearing up the wall behind my monitor like a blur of mass insect desctruction and scaring the hell out of me, or the odd redback in the warehouse i work in.
I think I follow the rule most people here do; small and harmless is fine but if they move in on my turf I take drastic action.
Spiders are awesome. Watching them wrap up their food is amazing. I think the same spider has been living in my bathroom for years.
Spiders are too fucking cool.
i can actually agree with the "unexpected spiders scare the shit out of me" sentiment. that's why i like webmaking spiders that stay in one spot rather than the non-webbing, hunting spiders that love to go where you don't want them to (i.e. into the shoe your about to wear RIGHT NOW)
Kill em. Kill em all.
Nah, I don't mind spiders as long as they aren't the really dangerous sort.
I had a spider living in my printer next to my desk last summer. He was a bro, seriously, he ate all the mosquitoes for me.
Living on my boat for the past 6-8 months, i've probably seen <5 during this time, and they were all at work or while walking somewhere.
Good for them because at home if its inside and I ever see it its fucking dead. I don't care if I see one outside, I keep going or move away from it.
This is an Australian spider, its deadlier then it looks.
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We kill spiders without a second thought, because it's a knee-jerk reaction of disgust. What happens if we meet an intelligent species that makes us feel the same way? Do people just take flamethrowers to them on sight, just because we feel an overwhelming sense of hatred and disgust for no logical reason? Probably.
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