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My cat says

👀🍽😼

(eats it then spits it out, then try to eat it again, repeat until dead)

Sorry spiders, I'm team Cat.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Even though I still have arachnophobia, I've intentionally lived with spiders for over a decade and I've not had issues with mosquitoes even if I left all of my windows open. And my roommates are thriving!

They're very chill roommates, too! After about 1-2 months of adjusting to living together in my old apartment, they stopped spinning webs in the areas which I used frequently and focused on the zones which I left out for them - ceiling corners, gaps between walls and furniture, etc. I did occasionally clean up their old webs every now and again (while taking great care not to bother the spiders themselves) because they also gathered a lot of dust. But they'd replace the old webbing in a matter of days.

And they never developed overpopulation issues, even though I did see them producing egg sacks regularly. I was expecting to drown in spiders by the end of the first year of trying this arrangement, but I never counted more than 15-20 spiders apartment-wide.

[-] visc@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago
[-] stoly@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago

Those spiders you find inside may be of a type completely adapted to living indoors with humans. Putting one outside means death.

[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago
[-] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 hours ago

I made this mistake with a stink bug when it was winter. It was ok with being on the piece of paper I had it on. When I opened the door and the cold air hit it, it backed away towards me. I set it down and it stopped moving. Oops. :(

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Spider bro is my ally against the wool moths, at the moment. If I catch one I'm putting it in the closet.

They earn their keep.

We had aphids in the garden last year. Wolf spider moved in, big fat guy. Made short work of em. Wolf spider is welcome among my lettuce any day.

[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago

I like spiders until they bite me when I sleep. Then peace is over.

[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Well then stop sleeping with spiders. Geez. /s

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

My wife and all my kids are deathly afraid of spiders. I put them all outside and I'm happy that's the example I'm setting.

Spider bro, spider bro, keeping that fly population low.

[-] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 45 points 10 hours ago
[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I have so many spiders on the lower floor of the place I'm in now I've given up on even bringing them outside. I identify what they are to keep track if we have an uptick in dangerous ones. If it is a particularly gross one it goes in the garage to war it out with the cellar spiders otherwise I just shoo them under furniture so I don't have to think about it. Damnit I'm turning into my dad...

[-] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 hours ago

They keep the bad stuff out, I figure. I try to put them in my plant pots if I find them around.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

I agree that we shouldn't disturb nature, but let's not forget that animals kill each other all the time. There's no such thing as ethics in nature.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 points 7 hours ago

What if we are the ethics in nature

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

My preferred method is using a piece of paper, slide it gently under them and lift.

[-] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 hours ago

Tried and true! I also add a jar because they make me jump, I can't help it lol. I have had big orb spiders crawl on me in the woods while climbing in the US and we have large spiders here incl. the giant English house spider here. They are both the size of hands. Freak me the fuck out haha.

[-] Nikko882@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 11 hours ago

I have no idea what you are talking about. ;)

[-] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 hours ago

Spiders are good, they eat the other bugs that cause trouble. The spiders we have are tiny though.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I saw a couple recluse spiders in my apartment several months ago and maybe I’m an idiot, but I left them alone. They were truly more scared of me than I was of them. They don’t want to bother me and only will if I threaten them. So I left them alone and they just chilled in their “recluse” hiding spots.

[-] frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

I have a door spider. It lives in a crack in my entry door. I'm not sure of it is the same spider as last year, but it makes trap web near my door frame. I think of it as bug protection, it's eating something I don't want in my house.

[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

Uhhhh....I would not fuck around with recluses. One bite will melt a golf ball size hole in your flesh. If you really want, you can catch and release but you for sure don't want them in your house. If they breed, you're looking at a serious problem.

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Widows are more common in my area and I do the same.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 12 hours ago
[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 11 hours ago

Corny, Cute, and Ethically, Environmentally Sound. TY!

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 4 points 11 hours ago
[-] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Asian Lady beetles on the other hand...

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 0 points 6 hours ago

...outside. They deserve to live outside. I unapologetically squish insects and arachnids alike inside my home.

[-] hmonkey@lemy.lol 1 points 11 hours ago

Well there is no absolute morality and spiders are scary so...

[-] Azteh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

If they don't violate my personal space, they get to live, but if it crawls on my monitor or something similar, I'm getting the slipper

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Aww you're no fun...

Here, have a video of one of my bros showing what he thinks of that comment.

this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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