5 ms·
Spiders are also useful. My exgf lived in a farm and had dozens of harmless spiders in the ceiling of her bedroom that ate all mosquitoes. It nuanced my view on
by kouh 7y ago
Spiders are also useful. My exgf lived in a farm and had dozens of harmless spiders in the ceiling of her bedroom that ate all mosquitoes. It nuanced my view on spiders.
- namanyayg 7y agoSo there were spiderwebs on the bedroom ceiling? I let spiders be in my bathroom but I can't stand the sight of their webs in my bedroom. Was that not a problem for her or you?
- kouh 7y agoThere were a few webs in the corners, but she didn't view it as a sign of dirty old carelessness like I was taught to through cartoons as a kid
- hutzlibu 7y agoI guess she still cleans them from time to time. I do, and they just make new webs. Only very old webs are ... dirty.
- mc32 7y agoYeah I thought spider webs only lasted a few days before they had to be torn down and rebuilt (because dusty webs aren’t effective nets)?
- hutzlibu 7y agoYes, I believe the spiders even eat their own webs and then produce new ones. But there always remain parts amd spiders die, change place etc. So old ones still remain.
- nikolay 7y agoI never kill spiders at home - they are our pets. My kids are no longer afraid of most bugs now as a bonus.
- hutzlibu 7y agoAnd I almost have my gf to be accepting of them too, as she also hates mosquitos more. But she comes from a land where dangerous spiders exist, while they are pretty harmless around here. So it takes aome adaption.
- drmpeg 7y agoHow do you determine if they're harmless? I had a spider bite a couple of weeks ago that gave me a welt the size of a dime (and super itchy).
- kouh 7y agoShe knew the type of spiders they were, but I was only assured after I wasn't bitten for a few days
- losvedir 7y agoDepends where you live but you can look up what spiders are in your area and which ones are dangerous. For example, in most of the US you only really have to worry about black widows (which are pretty distinct) and brown recluses which have a characteristic violin on them but IME often somewhat resemble the harmless wolf spider, which is common in my area. I'm pretty good at identifying the dangerous spiders now (i.e. distinguishing brown recluse from wolf), but it took several instances of trapping the spider under a glass and then breaking out my cell phone and looking at lots of pictures. If your area has lots of kinds of dangerous spiders then it might be more of a pain, though.
- aqme28 7y agoThere are plenty of spiders in the US that are harmful if they bite you but aren't "dangerous." I think what the parent comment was worried about was painful bites more-so than death (though that's also worrying).