re: Fear of spiders

I never understood the fear of spiders. They literally just stand still in one spot until they get stomped on

As long as a spider isn’t on me I’m fine. I feel like they keep other insects at bay. If I see one indoors though I will kill it and scare the kids with it before I flush it.

Snakes spook me if I walk up on one, but i know snakes are more scared of me than I am of them. However I would kill a poisonous snake if it were near my house. Oddly enough I’ve never come across a poisonous snake, at least one that I’ve laid eyes on.

Recently my kids came running inside screaming for me to come “kill” a snake in the yard. I got excited to see what we had. It was a large, beautiful speckled king snake. I took the opportunity to teach them (again) that there are good snakes and bad snakes - this was a good one and keeps bad snakes away. I’m not sure they were convinced, but they didn’t protest when I said we’d leave him alone.

Roaches? I don’t like those useless bastards. They’re dirty. When I was about 10 I saw one fly (glide?) across the living room. I exhibited professional-athlete-level muscle twitch getting out of that room.

I generally have multiple large wolf spiders that occupy my pot grow room.

They take care of alot of pests. They get honkin big. The light is on while I'm in there, generally they are just hiding. But I'll see them if I move the plants around, they just scurry away.

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If I see a spider or any other crawling insect indoors, I do my best to take a napkin and place it outside where it belongs...

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If it stays outside, where it belongs, it lives. If it comes inside, where it doesn't belong, it dies. It choose to commit suicide by human.

Pussy

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I think they’re related.

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I don’t doubt that they are related, they’re both highly intelligent creatures. If you just toss out what it takes to make spider webs and operate like they do, if you get up close to a spider, you can see their eyes are very alert and they are keen as to their surroundings. Same for an octopus. They’re very smart. There are videos of this where they have very keen intellectual capacity as well.

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Two years ago I left my pajama bottoms on the floor. When I put them on in the morning I saw one drop to the floor. A few minutes later I felt something crawling along my leg inside the PJs. Yes, you guessed it, BRs. I think I got tagged twice. My house is relatively new custom home on a lake in East Texas. It is worth a bunch. No way I'd leave. What I did was put out sticky traps and deluge the attic with Fastcap Onslaught. I then brought in a pest control company. Some sticky traps had twenty spiders. One day I went into the walk in attic and I saw a couple scurrying about. After all the spraying and cleanup in the attic, there is little evidence they are up there. Interestingly, the sticky traps with the most spiders were the ones I put underneath the bed against the wall. I've now lived in houses in Edmond Ok and Youngsville LA where I occasionally saw BRs. They move about in the dark. I rarely see them in the day.
I do not leave clothing like jeans or PJs that I intend to put on later on the floor anymore.

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There is so much NOPE in this post.

I would've burned my house down

not so much the spiders or snakes, it is the jump scares

A local story from along the Holston River east of Knoxville.
Good farm land, well watered along the river.
A farmer who lived opposite us on the river decided to grow watermelons.

The vines grew well and made lots of melons. When he and his brother went to harvest, they were horrified at the prevalence of Black Widow spiders in their melon patch. They went to the store to complain.
This is where the story got legs.
They demanded their money back for the seeds because the guy had sold them watermelon seeds with black widder spiders and they thought they were getting seeds without spiders.