Post: #51

(08-14-2015 10:06 PM)MrXY Wrote:  I kill black widows and brown recluses on sight; fortunately they are not real common where I live.

With other spiders I'm extremely lenient; I usually leave them alone or at most catch them in a jar and release them outside.

I lived for years in an old mansion in New Orleans. Between all the cracks and passages in walls and the swampy climate it was thoroughly colonized by spiders, including some huge ones. My cat and I lived in harmony with the spiders and they were such effective exterminators I never had to spray for insects. I spent many evenings reading in my living room overwatched by my allies, who learned they could sit in the open in complete safety. Sometimes when in bed one would crawl onto my arm, leg or face and I would brush it off.

I was never bitten.

This is how I am. Widows and recluses get smushed, others usually get left alone to eat mosquitoes and flies and other actually harmful bugs. The exception being if there's one in the shower with me (grew up in an old house and my mom still lives there, so happens all the time when I'm visiting her), fuck that.