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do u let spiders live because they'll catch the other nasty critters?

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I usually let them live, my cat on the other doesn't. Nothing lives inside the house that's smaller than him without his permission!
 
Originally posted by: KaOTiK
In the house all die. Outside, long as it isn't one I can tell is dangerous it can live.
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My wife and I kill them in the house but outside we let them live.

In fact, we even have a few large spiders we feed by throwing bugs in their webs.
 
I let most live. If it is over significant size and not venomous, then I will capture it and realease it in the yard so it can go catch insects for me.
 
I just leave them alone in general. I don't care if they are in here. I've read that spiders you find in your house have always been in your house... you just didn't know it before. Putting them outside would kill them. They are adapted to the warmth. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Descartes
I'll let all but the Black Widow or Brown Recluse live.
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IN the house, they will most likely ALL meet the newspaper <splat> but outside, I only kill black widows. (I don't think we have the brown recluse here, although we do have other members of the recluse family)
The run-of-the-mill garden spiders and our "jumping spiders" that look like mini-tarantulas generally are allowed to live.
 
To all the people that let spiders live in their homes. how do you know if they are not venomous? spiders have killed alot of people in their homes in Australia.
 
My room is a completely spider free zone. I try to keep every insect and spider out of there at all costs.
 
Originally posted by: Solodays
To all the people that let spiders live in their homes. how do you know if they are not venomous? spiders have killed alot of people in their homes in Australia.
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MOST spiders are venomous...just not enough so to bother humans. Here in the USA, we really only have 2 families of spiders that post threats to humans.
Black Widows
Brown Recluse

I've read before that Australia has more varietes of animals, insects, spiders, and sea creatures that can kill you than any other place on earth...
 
Originally posted by: KaOTiK
In the house all die. Outside, long as it isn't one I can tell is dangerous it can live.
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It wouldn't be in the house if you were doing your job as a proper insect hunter inside. Let it go, or let it live, or suffer the consequences from the alien giant spider overlords.
 
Originally posted by: Descartes
I'll let all but the Black Widow or Brown Recluse live.
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Black widows are pretty harmless unless you are in infant with a low tolerance in your immune system. Unless you get bit by 20 or 30 of them.

Brown recluses are usually misidentified by most people, so they panic and kill any brown spider they see, which is most spiders. :frown:
 
Originally posted by: Alkaline5
<Bob Barker>This is Bob Barker reminding you to control the spider population. Have your spiders spade or neutered!</Bob Barker>

If they're web-spinning stationary spiders I let them stay put and clean up smaller bugs until I have company coming over. If they're migratory and don't have a web then I smash them--I'm slightly creeped out that they have the run of my house while I'm sleeping.
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There are some hiding under your mattress waiting to eat your head lice while you sleep.

 
Originally posted by: Crono
Spiders in my house are funny. They like to zip down from the ceiling to say hi. Plus, they are in an ongoing war against the house flies, and they keep racking up kills. Right now I am rooting for the spiders, but if they keep on making webs in the kitchen, my allegiances will change. So far the ants are a no show. They usually march through during the summer, and scatter around the house, but I set up a defensive line around the foundation of the house with Ortho Home Defense Max (can I have $$$, Ortho, for product placement? No?), so I think we won't see them for a while. I don't like them at all, since they get into food sources and just get everywhere.
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Different spiders prefer different prey, sort of like political or religious people. There are spiders that live near the floor who like ants, and spiders who like lights at night to eat mosquitoes (really JUICY FAT ones) and even spiders who prefer to eat flies as well. They are a very evolved species, and it seems for nearly every insect, some spider has evolved just to eat it. And arachnids are NOT insects, BTW, and most bug killers will only harm spiders if they eat enough poisoned bugs.

I have a sandy soil around my house, and ants out the wazzo, and I have seen a massive colony of ant lions growing around my house, getting larger year after year. so I will spray around the house for ants, to keep them out, and treat large mounds directly outside like fire ants, but I wont put down a mass insecticide or weed killer which would also kill all the ant lions and all the beneficial amphibian and reptile species who venture on my property.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: Descartes
I'll let all but the Black Widow or Brown Recluse live.
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We've got the hobo spider here. It does those necrotic bites like the brown recluse, but are much milder. They get thrown into other spiders' webs.
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LOL! And the warfare amongst the ruling factions of the giant alien spider overlords commences!
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
no, spiders always die an immediate death.
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this.

i don't want spiderwebs in my living space.
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Maybe to the spider, you are the invader? :roll:

9 out of 10 giant alien spider overlords would agree! 😉
 
Originally posted by: Pale Rider
I kill any spiders I come across on site. Around here if you don't catch them when they are the size of a quarter they will quickly become the size of a CD.
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And if they are growing to the size of a CD, they are obviously eating SOMETHING, right?😕

Where is the spider LOVE in this thread?:frown:
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
My personal policy is to let the ones outside live. My wife however freaks out over spiders so they must all die.
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You must train her properly. Then you won't have to face the giant alien spider overlords later, and feed her to them yourself as punishment.
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Any insect that enters my place has forfeited their right to life.
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A spider is not an insect, it is an arachnid. So that means you let spiders live? 😕
 
Originally posted by: Furyline
thou shalt not suffer a spider to live

whenever I see one indoors I flip out and squish it
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If you go to all the trouble to flip it outside, and then kill it just for sport, does that mean you just generally enjoy killing as well?

10 points for effort at relocating the spiders.

-10 points for killing them after you do this.

The giant alien overlord spiders have a bone to pick with you, YOURS.
 
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