There's a house spider that sits between my mailbox and the frame of my door, every time I leave, I look for him just to say bye. Sometimes, I'll even capture a flying bug and throw it in his web for him. Such good door guards.
It's extremely common in Texas for people to find/keep spiders near windows and certain doors outside. I had one near an outside window that caught about 40 fire ants in its web, another had about 20 mosquitos, loved those bastards. Wolf spider in the backyard consumes all the bigger bugs and leave people alone/extremely passive towards humans.
Centipedes are supposed to be decently helpful as well..
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My uncle who used to live in California had a rule that no one was allowed to kill the cellar spiders. I prefer relocation over killing anyway, but gotta say the legs on those guys is a bit unsettling.
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Nothing's scarier than having the large black mass start moving and growing legs. Cellar spiders aka daddy long leg infestations are things of pure nightmares.
I've been fortunate enough not to encounter that. Mostly they hung out in the bathroom, which was unnerving. They rarely MOVED, but I never fully trusted them to hold to that.
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I tend to refer to them by the cellar spider name since we have those 6 legged faux-spider things out here that get called daddy long legs haha
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I'm fortunate: the most common spider I encounter are the zebra spiders. They're small, they don't build webs, they have tiny legs cause they jump. All in all cute enough that I genuinely don't mind them at all.
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I mostly run into regular old house spiders and such, the biggest threat here are brown recluses which can result in some pretty horrendous injuries. Other than those bastards, the local spider population can be pretty chill.
Yes, I've heard/seen the damage the recluse can cause. I think either a recluse or a funnelweb was featured on Monsters Inside Me, too. Not sure if we've got them in Canada. I know we get black widows and such, but we largely seem too cold for more venemous species
That's why letting the wolf spiders live is so helpful/important. They dont breed that much so you wont see that many of them, and they actually eat all the other spiders... particularly helpful in eliminating any brown recluses that may appear--those SOB's are extremely venomous.
We have coconut spiders here (they grow to a good palm size) , they are great for coconut trees as it usually preys on a particular parasitic bug that burrows into the stalk of a young leaf and consumes the sap,I just scream and run instead of spraying it with water nowadays
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My uncle who used to live in California had a rule that no one was allowed to kill the cellar spiders. I prefer relocation over killing anyway, but gotta say the legs on those guys is a bit unsettling.
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I tend to refer to them by the cellar spider name since we have those 6 legged faux-spider things out here that get called daddy long legs haha
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I'm fortunate: the most common spider I encounter are the zebra spiders. They're small, they don't build webs, they have tiny legs cause they jump. All in all cute enough that I genuinely don't mind them at all.
Since they are basically land crabs