What do you do with spiders you find in your house?

That's not true, you know. Cellar spiders (the only true spider know as "daddy long-legs") can bite humans, but their venom is not medically significant barring allergies.

Considering we only have small, harmless spiders (hordes of them, though) I leave them most of the time. We're a team, they take care of the mosquitoes in my room, I leave them in peace :>

If I feel though that they're going to die if they sit in my house without food, or if they're somewhat bigger and they scare other people, I let them out.

Not sure how I'd react to massive venomous deadly spiders though o__o I'm not too keen on getting anywhere near those.

Originally Posted by Smooth Sailing

They die. The only bug I can't get myself to kill are ants. ANTS ARE SO CUTE!!

I might leave spiders alone but ants, ants are terrible. If I see an ant in the house, I kill it. Ants don't belong in the house. They get into your food and they usually come in swarms.

Originally Posted by Astarael

I was talking about huntsmans, not harvestmen.

If you were referring to the post above mine though, then yep, that's right - daddy longlegs are arachnids, but of a different order to that which the true spiders belong to. I think the difference between a harvestman and a true spider has something to do with the daddy longlegs' lack of venom (contrary to a certain urban legend) and an unsegmented body structure.

when I say daddy long legs, I'm usually referring to this sucker:



which actually is a spider.

Originally Posted by Cereal Bawks

^What about daddy long legs? They're harmless to humans. They can't bite you.

Originally Posted by Pistolero

The only spider I'm fine with is a "Daddy long-leg", as someone else already said. IIRC, they're one of most venomous spiders, but cannot open their mouths wide enough to inject venom. If it's anything else, I kill it.

Adam Savage got bit by a daddy long legs on Mythbusters.

Originally Posted by Terezi

when I say daddy long legs, I'm usually referring to this sucker:



which actually is a spider.

I was referring to daddy long-legs as harvestmen in particular because I was replying to MagicBean. But yeah, I know that one is a spider.

Why you gotta be like that, Australia!?

^I don't even want to try to kill that thing.

Yeah. Thats when you EVACUATE THE PREMISES!!!!

I eat them.

But huntsmans are cute! They're utterly harmless, and also helpful to have around the house, since they kill more bothersome pests. Some of them are even placid enough to be hand-fed:



I've wanted one as a pet, but unfortunately I've had my arachnophobic family to think of on that score. :<

Destroy them all. All bugs of almost all kinds.

Recently I had a rash of scorpions. Killed them and had the house sprayed.

I one time had two Wolf spiders in less than a month. Nasty things, and freakishly fast. Lots of bug spray and strikes from a size 13 shoe.

I kill them. I'm not taking any chances.

i'm ♥♥♥♥ing scared ♥♥♥♥less of spiders. i can't even kill them. i have to get my brother to kill them for me
he just turned 13, i'm 18...
if you can't tell, i'm gonna go far in life

Originally Posted by Astarael

But huntsmans are cute! They're utterly harmless, and also helpful to have around the house, since they kill more bothersome pests. Some of them are even placid enough to be hand-fed:



I've wanted one as a pet, but unfortunately I've had my arachnophobic family to think of on that score. :<

BLOODY HELL! What the...aahhhheeeehhhkaahsalsj
THEYRE ENORMOUS! I WOULD RUN FOR MY LIFE IF I SAW ONE!

I actually had a nightmare about those damned huntsmen spiders lurking in my bathroom. The size of dinner plates...mocking me with their spidery legs! eeagghhsdhjd. Harmless or not. They are scary!

Originally Posted by Severus Snape

BLOODY HELL! What the...aahhhheeeehhhkaahsalsj
THEYRE ENORMOUS! I WOULD RUN FOR MY LIFE IF I SAW ONE!

I actually had a nightmare about those damned huntsmen spiders lurking in my bathroom. The size of dinner plates...mocking me with their spidery legs! eeagghhsdhjd. Harmless or not. They are scary!

Same here..those things are damn horrifying. I freak out bad over the little ones, so I can't imagine what would happen if I saw one of those. I think I'd be scarred for life. D:

Yeeah..doesn't look like I'll be visiting Australia anytime soon. If I want to meet Lysia someday, I'm going to need to wait until she comes to NY. XD

Originally Posted by Severus Snape

BLOODY HELL! What the...aahhhheeeehhhkaahsalsj
THEYRE ENORMOUS! I WOULD RUN FOR MY LIFE IF I SAW ONE!

I actually had a nightmare about those damned huntsmen spiders lurking in my bathroom. The size of dinner plates...mocking me with their spidery legs! eeagghhsdhjd. Harmless or not. They are scary!

I think the worst I could do to that thing is pee on it. I definitely would be afraid to kill it. I will never move to Australia, that's for sure.

Originally Posted by Astarael

... Cool. I would totally play with that ;D

Originally Posted by Willow-chan

Same here..those things are damn horrifying. I freak out bad over the little ones, so I can't imagine what would happen if I saw one of those. I think I'd be scarred for life. D:

Yeeah..doesn't look like I'll be visiting Australia anytime soon. If I want to meet Lysia someday, I'm going to need to wait until she comes to NY. XD

I was watching some other huntsman vids and shared them with some folks in an (not #zelda) irc channel. They were all " GAHHHHHHHHHH" too.
THOSE ARE NOT CUTE! NO MATTER HOW ADORABLE THEY MAY ACT!

Eughh...i always hated those acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest....

Originally Posted by Severus Snape

I was watching some other huntsman vids and shared them with some folks in an (not #zelda) irc channel. They were all " GAHHHHHHHHHH" too.
THOSE ARE NOT CUTE! NO MATTER HOW ADORABLE THEY MAY ACT!

Eughh...i always hated those acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest....

Oh man..and Astarael mentioned that they are useful around the house. I wouldn't even be able to sleep at night, much less stay in the house, if I knew one of those were running around loose. Imagine waking up to one of those things crawling on you? *SHUDDER* I don't even know how people can sleep at night when they have roaches in their house or apartment.

Astarael, I admire you for having more guts than I ever will with spiders. XD

Originally Posted by Severus Snape

I actually had a nightmare about those damned huntsmen spiders lurking in my bathroom. The size of dinner plates...mocking me with their spidery legs! eeagghhsdhjd. Harmless or not. They are scary!

I've had a dream (or moreover part of a dream where I thought I had awaken and it was very realistic) and there was a spider like those Huntsmen spiders on my pillow... It was even bigger than a plate.

To this day, although deep down I knew it had to have been a dream, I still question whether that was real or not... D: I know that, doesn't make any sense, but it was just very weird.

(Although, in that dream I basically shook it off of the pillow and went back to sleep. That should be a sure sign of it not being real, don't you think? xD)

An old superstition/joke/thingy that my mom's said to me since I was really little is that every time you kill a spider, it rains. (I've personally expanded it to that it rains somewhere in the world, and one kill cancels the other out) so I just mostly ignored them. Where I am there aren't poisonous ones, so I never cared.