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I don't get the horror thing. If you live in North America, chances are they're all around you in woodpiles, rafters, wherever. You never see them because they
by imglorp 4y ago
I don't get the horror thing. If you live in North America, chances are they're all around you in woodpiles, rafters, wherever. You never see them because they run and hide.
I view them like perfectly engineered, self replicating, insect exterminators we might someday soon buy (with a cloud app): they work for you day and night keeping pests at bay and they do their darnedest to stay out of sight.
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- maximinus_thrax 4y agoBingo. I personally hate spiders, I find them repugnant. But I love the idea of spiders and I hate flies and wasps orders of magnitude more. A spider will never go for my food while it's on my plate. That's why I never kill spiders. I often run into the little guys in my garage or outside my window and I always think it's because I was too fast and they didn't get a change to GTFO.
- tsuujin 4y agoThey are dangerous, though. I vividly remember my dad being intubated in the hospital when I was a young boy as the result of black widow bites. Got on the back of his neck in an attic and bit him several times when he felt something and tried to brush it off. We shouldn’t be terrified of them, but a healthy respect is probably wise.
- HEmanZ 4y agoLike others are saying, there’s a huge risk of getting bit. I have a family member who was bit on the foot while cleaning his basement. He still walks with a limp 20 years later from the damage it did, and is lucky he didn’t lose his leg. Other spiders get left alone around my house, but not widows.