But did he get the spider?

"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

October 18, 2017, 05:41 PM

Pipe Smoker

I keep a spider-friendly home. When I moved in there were lots of disgusting silverfish – many of them big. Now, far fewer, and usually tiny.

"Earwigs, house centipedes, and spiders are known to be predators of silverfish."

October 18, 2017, 06:14 PM

egregore

I let spiders be, or at most scoop them up and put them outside, except for widows and recluses.

October 18, 2017, 09:48 PM

Scuba Steve Sig

If its in the house it gets nuked from orbit with the nearest solid object I can reach. I hate them. My blood pressure is rising just thinking that there are at least a dozen in the room I am in right now that I can't see. All venomous and ready to try their damnedest to try to kill me if it wasn't for my epidermis force field and vastly larger body size. Plus there is the whole thing about humans eat like 5 of them a year in our sleep.

I once woke up and there was a spider descending from the ceiling directly towards my face! I have an aunt that suffered a brown recluse bite. I don't know how they managed to not napalm their house. One Christmas spiders hatched from the tree and covered it with their nets. Ho ho ho! My brother just called and he is talking about spiders.

Our house has a walk-in basement and has some sort of polyfoam piece under the sill plate, before we finished it I caulked the whole perimeter inside. It really seemed to cut down on the ones that got in.

October 18, 2017, 10:02 PM

ensigmatic

If I find them in the house I catch 'em and release 'em outside. Unless it's winter, in which case I release 'em in the garage.

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher

October 18, 2017, 10:32 PM

flashguy

quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
I let spiders be, or at most scoop them up and put them outside, except for widows and recluses.

Same here.

flashguy

October 18, 2017, 10:54 PM

zdog16

Nope, nope, nope!! Fuckem! I don’t care how good they are. Too many damn legs and eyes. Yes, kill them I must as Yoda would say. I say fuckem and murder the lot of them. I don’t need spiders to kill bugs I have fucking bug spray. Yuck!!