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[–] WagnasT 66 points 4 months ago (10 children)

they also eat bedbugs and other harmful pests, they're awesome other than being fucking terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I have a super old house that has these in it, along with spiders and other various creepy crawlies (nothing dangerously venomous in the area, save one spider species I’ve never seen, which only produces mild tissue necrosis).

I really don’t mind them -certainly not enough to do anything about them- and the cats like chasing them in the middle of the night, so whatever.

But man, on the rare occurrence I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and see one in the red light of the nightlight, skittering across the wall with a quickness, scares the bejesus out of me. Every. Damn. Time.

[–] WillFord27 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Do they ever crawl on you? I've found that if I ever spot a spider in my house, in the next week I'll find it somewhere on me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Literally never, no. Occasionally they hang from their silk and get close, but not super often.

But my spiders know me. They see me every day and know I’m not gunna bother them even if I see them (I even talk to them sometimes) so they give me a wide berth as well. They mostly hang out where I can’t (or won’t) reach, which works for me. Only downside is cleaning up webs a few times a year.

What kind of spiders are crawling on you? That’s pretty unusual from what I understand, unless they just blow down on their silk or whatever? Or maybe you have a lot more spiders than I do and they just hide better ;)

[–] WillFord27 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Had a spider bro in my bathroom for a month, one day he disappeared. The very next night I woke up to him crawling on my face. It was unfortunate for us both.

I think the spiders here hide well, so the ones I spot are the risky ones that don't mind scuttling over me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Huh. Ngl, that’s super weird, but I’m sorry that’s your experience, because this harmony thing I’ve got going on is pretty sweet, and I wish it for everyone. Tho the random bumblebee that finds her way to my living room 2-3x/yr perplexes me..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I like to imagine that it's the same bumblebee every time...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Huh, I had a talk with our house spiders. I told them the bathroom and bedrooms were off limits.

So far, none have survived our bathroom encounters.

[–] hazardous_area 4 points 4 months ago

Not crawling on me but I found one of these mother fuckers in my pants by putting on the pants. Was not excited to find out why my leg hair was moving

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