I hate spiders, but...

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

LOL

http://runt-of-the-web.com/the-sad-world-of-the-misunderstood-house-spider

[Suu]

Don't care.

Still will kill on sight.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

Oh me too. i just especially laughed at the furniture polish cause i usually squirt them from a safe distance with cleaner too 

[trix]

ahahaha
that link was fantastic!  Thanks!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Awwwwww!!!!

[Triple Zero]

There's been a tiny spider in my living room for a week and it's been eating mosquitos. I'm okay with this.

I'll have to give it a poke cause I'm not sure if it's moved in the past day. Weird critter.

[Cain]

I see the point, in principle, but when my house is invaded by 25+ spiders, some as large as my hand (minus fingers), and there are no other bugs in my house at all, because it's the middle of winter and they're all dead....yeah, I'm going to get the newspaper and start squishing you.

Apparently, if there were no spiders at all, the amount of flies they eat yearly would be enough to cover the surface of the planet in 2 metres of fly corpses.  However, that aint much comfort where they aren't no flies in my house and tons of spiders.

Though since getting the cats, this has not been a problem, as our cats will kill both spiders and flies.  And cats are nicer to look at.

[BadBeast]

Apparently, if there were no spiders at all, the amount of flies they eat yearly would be enough to cover the surface of the planet in 2 metres of fly corpses.

[Cain]

Apparently, if there were no spiders at all, the amount of flies they eat yearly would be enough to cover the surface of the planet in 2 metres of fly corpses.

That's why I said apparently.  I read it at least a decade ago, in a science-y publication about insects, but that's all I can recall.  It also may have been the amount they eat plus the amount they would reproduce if they were not in a spider's stomach.  Point is, either way, that's a shit load of flies.

[BadBeast]

Apparently, if there were no spiders at all, the amount of flies they eat yearly would be enough to cover the surface of the planet in 2 metres of fly corpses.

That's why I said apparently.  I read it at least a decade ago, in a science-y publication about insects, but that's all I can recall.  It also may have been the amount they eat plus the amount they would reproduce if they were not in a spider's stomach.  Point is, either way, that's a shit load of flies.

Yeah, that's a lot of flies, either way.  But we could (after wiping out the spiders) introduce those cute little geckos to soak up the slack in fly consumption. They're far less repulsive to find scuttling across your duvet at 3.am, and they only have the two eyes, which makes them . . . . . . almost human in comparison to a spider's eight. They don't get stuck in the bath, or reduce a quarter of all women into screeching hysteria either. And that's good.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I like spiders. I never kill em in my house.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I like spiders. I never kill em in my house.

But isn't that because the alternative in Florida is 2-foot-long crocodile-cockroach hybrids that spit acid?

[Telarus]

Apparently, if there were no spiders at all, the amount of flies they eat yearly would be enough to cover the surface of the planet in 2 metres of fly corpses.

That's why I said apparently.  I read it at least a decade ago, in a science-y publication about insects, but that's all I can recall.  It also may have been the amount they eat plus the amount they would reproduce if they were not in a spider's stomach.  Point is, either way, that's a shit load of flies.

Yeah, that's a lot of flies, either way.  But we could (after wiping out the spiders) introduce those cute little geckos to soak up the slack in fly consumption. They're far less repulsive to find scuttling across your duvet at 3.am, and they only have the two eyes, which makes them . . . . . . almost human in comparison to a spider's eight. They don't get stuck in the bath, or reduce a quarter of all women into screeching hysteria either. And that's good.

On the other hand, they will use your ceiling fan as a carnival ride. They have no qualms about landing on your dinnerplate. The word "Gecko" actually comes from the sounds they make (late, late at night). OH, OH, and every once in a while you'll open or close a window and hear 2-3 tiny little *CHRUNCH* sounds, look down, and discover that you've just performed 3 tiny lizard abortions.

[Freeky]

I like spiders. I never kill em in my house.

if it weren't for the fact that I'm pretty sure all of our spiders are ill-tempered and mildly poisonous to people at best and OH MY GOD ITS A BLACK GODDAMN WIDOW KILL KILL GET IT AWAY FROM ME AAAH, I wouldn't either.  I'd be cool with some daddy long legs in our house, but they just don't live here.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Apparently, if there were no spiders at all, the amount of flies they eat yearly would be enough to cover the surface of the planet in 2 metres of fly corpses.

That's why I said apparently.  I read it at least a decade ago, in a science-y publication about insects, but that's all I can recall.  It also may have been the amount they eat plus the amount they would reproduce if they were not in a spider's stomach.  Point is, either way, that's a shit load of flies.

Yeah, that's a lot of flies, either way.  But we could (after wiping out the spiders) introduce those cute little geckos to soak up the slack in fly consumption. They're far less repulsive to find scuttling across your duvet at 3.am, and they only have the two eyes, which makes them . . . . . . almost human in comparison to a spider's eight. They don't get stuck in the bath, or reduce a quarter of all women into screeching hysteria either. And that's good.

The geckos are cute, but not that good at catching flies, and they die if the temperature gets below like 60 degrees. That's the only reason the whole continent isn't swarming with them.