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Who is this spider and should I be afraid?
minirhyder
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He's sitting on my bedroom wall right now.
Should I kill him, capture and relocate, or let him hang out in my room indefinitely?
Should I kill him, capture and relocate, or let him hang out in my room indefinitely?
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Pick er up with a paper towel and toss in the yard
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Vote for leaving the spider where it is, they keep other nasties away.
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then apply more fire.
This goes for every spider ever. In fact, anything with number-of-legs >= 5.
They're creatures that seek comfort and food. Your house was chosen because it was warm and had food that it could eat. If you open your back door and let it go, it will just come right back into the house via the same means it got in in the first place.
This is 100% not true.
There may be more spiders in my house / coming for my house, but this one is no longer inside it. And that feels good.
Sorry I forgot to use modifiers to outsmart the pedants! Here let me fix it to appease you:
Catch and release is silly.
Most creatures seek comfort and/or food in their short existence on Earth. This thing is in your house. There exists multiple reasons it is there. Possibly just chance. More than likely there is/was food at some point. If it's a different creature (like a mouse) it may choose to re-enter your dwelling for shelter and food. The spider will likely use a series of simple mechanics and survival mechanisms to orient itself to a new situation. In most cases, it will re-enter since it has done so previously. Obviously we can't anticipate what a creature is going to do.
So squash it just to be safe if you dislike spiders. Why leave it up to random chance and survival of the fittest?
But you're right, they reproduce fast and one spider death won't impact their numbers.
Anyway, the update on the issue is that by the time I found out that this spider is venomous it disappeared, so it's at large in my bedroom. I did not wake up with any welts or necrotic tissue, so that's good. If I see him again I'll kill him.
Thanks all!
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You should be okay so long as he doesn't hide out where you can "squish" him like clothes or bedding. Those types of spiders like garages especially because of gas/oil/petroleum.
Doesn't look like that spider is particularly dangerous and you mostly need to worry about secondary infections like MRSA. If you got something that looks like a spider bite, get it checked out ASAP because staph and spider bites look very similar.
And yeah, sorry that was a goosey reply, but that spider in particular is "attracted" to things and moves indoors in the fall/winter when it gets colder.
http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/sacspiders.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiracanthium
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Cheiracanthium_inclusum/
Too late. Your slow response has killed us all. The spider has already laid its poisonous eggs in your ear canal.
Jesus.
Catch-and-release is just as valid as "KILL IT WITH FIRE NOW!" as a response. Picking one over the other is a matter of values, psychology, culture, and habit just as much as anything else. Any choice is just as silly as the other, including the choice to not do anything and leave it alone or the choice to fete the spider as your new Ur-God-King and hand-feed it tiny ants as sacrifices.
OP: It's not going to kill you, if that's your main concern. It might potentially bite you (very, very small chance), but most likely will just leave you alone.
That's a myth.
The spiders aren't actually swallowed, they actually navigate through your nasal passages in order to access your brain, as mammal brains are actually the preferred breeding grounds of several common spider varieties.
pfft no one told you to buy a house in cirith ungol
I will never sleep again.
Look, you want to flip a place and turn a profit, you have to buy it cheap. Sometimes that means a place that needs a lot of work to get it sellable, sometimes that means talking spiders the size of small horses who are getting sick of eating orcs.
You pay your money, you take your chances.
If it helps, the spiders in your brain almost never crawl *out* of your nose while your awake, so think of sleeping as the only way to get them out. sure, some come back in. but what else are ya gonna do.
AAUGGGGGHHHHH
whaaaattttt
did it eat your hand?
do you have a hook for a hand now?
Widows and recluse are on my shit list.
I leave sac and house spiders alone 99% of the time. Unless it drops on me, then all bets are off as I flail around.
That looks like a huntsmen. They're creepy as fuck.
How do you guys handle funnel? I figured you'd kill those too.
I'm cool with letting the spider hang out in my bedroom as long as it doesn't put me in danger. I'm not skittish about spiders, I just don't want them in my shit.
How much potential benefit is there from this spider hanging out in my bedroom?
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Do you have a problem with fruit flies and other bugs? Spiders are really good with annoying insects. I still get freaked out and kill them, but if they're in my basement I leave them alone because fuuuuuuuuuck the creepy crawlers that live down there.
Seriously, get some LOTR LEGO figs and take a picture with that spider.
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The reality is that most spiders are pretty much harmless (yeah even here in Australia), and they do good work in keeping the population of irritating bugs down.
Kinda...I get fruit flies once in a while because my roommate can be a slob. So I guess I'm better off letting him stay.
What should I name him?
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