Do you instinctivly kill spiders?

[NecroBlade]

Originally Posted by ej

That's not right.

Couldn't disagree more. It's freakin' cool, I'd keep one as a pet.

[Annerios]

Originally Posted by ej

That's not right.

Just be glad you are not small enough for him to eat! :P

[ej]

Originally Posted by NecroBlade

Couldn't disagree more. It's freakin' cool, I'd keep one as a pet.

Fur-coat-wearing, too-many-legs-having, staring-right-at-me Godless little Freak.

[cycoduck]

I wind up with spiders like this one:



in my front yard, killing the wasps and mosquitos. So, they get to live. On the flip side, I've been bitten twice by black widows, so they die on sight.

I'll try to find the picture of the orb weaver I had in my backyard, thing was 8" from leg to leg. Scared the crap out of me when I walked into it's web without noticing, but cool as hell. I'll find the picture and post it just for ej.

[ej]

Don't do me any favors.

[jdtenor]

I see to many people taking them out so. I just kill any bugs around also I kill the BEES

[monkeyfish]

I'll only kill the life-threatening ones. Or whenever my sister gets the scared out of her by one I'll kill it for her.

[Havokscry]

Doesn't everybody know that if you kill a spider, it will rain?

[monkeyfish]

Originally Posted by Havokscry

Doesn't everybody know that if you kill a spider, it will rain?

No wonder its been raining so much.

[Nwojedi]

Originally Posted by Annerios

!

THat is awesome. How big is that spider? Take a pic with one on a HS board, so we can see the size. We don't have anything like that here. We have mostly daddy longlegs. If I see anything with some real meat on it, it's a treat. *insert my own perverted joke here*. The centipeds around here are huge thou. I've had some bigger than a spoon. They also are removed from my house gently on my hand, which is usually up my arm or down my shirt by the time I get outside.

[Homba]

I catch them in a cup and put them outside. I am inconsistent though, because I kill roaches and ants. Is there a difference, or is it all the same?

I kill dangerous spiders inside (where I've never seen them) or outside (where I've killed Black Widows in the nooks in the bricks around my flowerbeds). I hate to do it, but it's a genetic imperative I think. I couldn't stand it if in some freak occurance one of them poisoned one of my family. I have little kids, so a warning is not a reliable option.

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[DingoDarkly]

Originally Posted by Nwojedi

THat is awesome. How big is that spider? Take a pic with one on a HS board, so we can see the size. We don't have anything like that here. We have mostly daddy longlegs. If I see anything with some real meat on it, it's a treat. *insert my own perverted joke here*. The centipeds around here are huge thou. I've had some bigger than a spoon. They also are removed from my house gently on my hand, which is usually up my arm or down my shirt by the time I get outside.

This is why i like living in England - we only have one type of poisonous snake and that's it, we're pretty much safe from anything else.
Now if i saw that spider in my house i'd have to move out!
As for killing things, i don't intentionally kill creatures. I have had fairly big spiders on my bedroom wall and i've plucked up the courage to get them in a container and chuck them out the window. One time i even saw one of them run across my back garden after i'd thrown it out and it still looked huge! I even saved a beetle that was in my house. It had managed to get knocked onto it's back and it was there for like a day and i thought it was dead to i turned it over and it ran off.