Spiders!

I am extremely arachnophobic and it took me years to muster up the courage to kill a daddy long-legs. While I recognize spiders have a place in the ecosystem, I would prefer that they all die.

Anyone with me? LOL

I hate spiders too. All of them! lol. I`m not afraid to kill them though. I can`t tell the difference in species and that scares me because there are some pretty bad ones out there.

I do not mind spiders in general. If I find a spider in the house and I know what it is I will leave it alone. If there is any doubt in my mind that it might be poisonous then I kill.

Where I live there are no poisonous spiders so I'm not that bothered. If I lived in Australia, where my best friend lives, I'd be more scared I think!

Well, the only one we have here is the brown recluse. Now, for the most part they are not aggressive and getting bit is rare. Even if you do get bit, it is not as serious as other poisonous spiders. None the less, anything that even closely resembles a brown recluse has to be squished.

I know most spiders are harmless but they scare me. I saw a dead tarantula in a container once at the grocery store and I was clammy, shaky, had a racing heart, the whole bit.

For the most part, I don't like them, especially in the house. But I do know that they kill bugs and flies, so they are an important part of the ecology, so I'll catch them and put them outside. But now, recluses and black widows, they're smashed on the spot!

My wife wanted a pet tarantula to help her get over her fear of spiders. I don't mess with it but she holds it sometimes. She had gotten bitten by a brown recluse years ago and was determined to get over her fear.

I don't mind spiders at all - and in fact we have quite a few who live in our house. We don't have poisonous ones though. I am sorry to hear that the fear of spiders can cause so much distress - and that if you don't like them you won't want them in your house. The killing of poisonous spiders I also understand - I regularly kill those poisonous caterpillars that are so harmful for dogs - but why kill harmless spiders ?

I am one of those people who gently removes all spiders in a glass cup turned upside down and a piece of cardboard scooter under it. I take them to the garden away from where I work and let them know that outside is where they should live NOT inside. Yes the brown recluse is a tricky one for us insect lovers, I have even been known to put them outside, but once lived in an infested building. I like the idea of letting them know your house is your home and that if they choose to live they should be outside. Clears the karma - ha.

Crippling phobias equal irrational behavior. I kill all spiders (or make my husband kill them) because they scare me half to death. They really do. I am not comfortable with letting them live.

I like the way you said that "Clears the Karma". However, I am one of those that had to overcome my fear of spiders. I even use sticky traps to catch mice and rats. I try not to kill anything unless it is a treat to my children.

For those of you who think Brown Recluse bites are no big deal...

This is not a rare happening. Brown Recluse bites often lead to serious necrosis (areas of dead flesh) and can be quite troublesome challenge to successfully treat. Not every bite ends up this way but enough do to warrant extreme caution regarding the brown recluse. There are bunches of pix worse than this on the internet posted on serious medical sites. This is not a hoax.

Be careful out there.

Pat

Thank you!!! I am the same way. I can not stand spiders at all! They must have some kind of sense that I am terrified of them too because whenever I see one I will run in a different direction and they always seem to go toward me instead of away. I scream every time I see a spider. Thank God for my husband because he is my knight in shinning armor who kills them for me. My fear of spiders runs deeper than the average person because I have been bit many times by spiders on my face (typically on the eyelid) as a child and even as an adult. The last time a spider bit me on the eyelid I had a super bad reaction to where my face swelled all up and nothing but antibiotics from the doctor took the swelling down. I always know it was a spider and not some other bug because I will typically find a spider near or on my bed soon after a bite. I hate spiders!!!! I would rather have frogs, lizards, and birds in my room eating insects than having to have a spider in my house.

Personally, I try not to kill them, especially when outside. I was splitting wood early last summer and found this young lady stomping around on the splitter. If you google "fishing spider" you can find out more about her. She is actually carrying her egg sac in her fangs. She will carry it up into a tree, and then find a nice spot to wrap leaves and web around it to create a nursery for them. (See also "Nursery Web Spiders.")



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I hate spidders too! I live in an arae with rattle snakes and i would fight a rattle snake anytime. Spiders are snicky and never know when one is stalking you.