Arachnophobia: The Fear Of Spiders

Do you hate spiders?

  • Yes, I kill them no matter what.

    Votes: 21 29.6%

  • No, they deserve to live as mother nature intended.

    Votes: 11 15.5%

  • Only if they annoy me. I don't bother if they mind their own business.

    Votes: 39 54.9%
  • Total voters
    71
Spiders....

In my neck of the woods, we have Brown Recluse, Black Widows, AND Wolf Spiders.

I walk outside in total fear. One (WOLF) even got into my house, with thousands of babies on it's ass....


Yea, **** 'em.
 
Depends on the Spider. Whenever I come across a Redback, I instantly kill it. I don't want any of these crawling around the house or even the backyard. Sorry. Whenever I see a Huntsman in the house, I generally grab it straight away and throw it outside, before the screaming starts. Sometimes I've got to rescue the poor things before they get murdered. I tend to leave them alone as long as they don't come inside. With all the other smaller spiders I usually don't bother, though sometimes I still need to grab them and throw them outside, as with the Huntsman, for their own protection.

Oh yeah, luckily we don't get the funnel-web spiders here, but they'd die instantly for sure.
 
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gorsad
This is pretty much me :lol:
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porthillking
Don't talk to me about those 8 legged demons! Hate 'em, :scared:
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Lucas
They must die as soon as I spot them.
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Xenn
I think I have it quite bad when it comes to having a fear of spiders. I get chills even seeing one.

I'm literally terrified of big spiders, I won't go anywhere near them.
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MatskiMonk
Kill 'em, kill 'em all!!

Hate 'em, use the adrenaline, must kill them in 10 seconds or less, then the fear does start to kick in. Unless it's tiny I can't even bare think about them on my skin.
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What they said ! :lol:
 
DeathSmiles
I was reading about Redbacks, those things are pretty dangerous.
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Generally, a healthy adult with no allergies against their venom should be fine, but bites can indeed be quite dangerous. I've found a nest in our pool fence in one of the old houses we lived once, not something you'd like to have in your pool area, that's for sure, particularly not if you have young children playing in and around the pool. Multiple bites to a small child can have serious effects.

But the Redback is nothing compared to the funnel-web spiders, so I'm quite glad we don't get them here. Well, at least as far as I know.

DeathSmiles
That's whats scary to me the most, is getting bitten by a damn recluse, and this happening to me.
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Yeah, necrosis is terrible. That's why I'd instantly kill any white-tailed spider as well, just in case.
 
I hate spiders. Been made fun of a lot because I'd start panicking. Wasps, bees, roaches, I'm fine with them. But not spiders. And it took me quite awhile to work up the nerve to come in here because I knew just ONE PERSON had to post a picture. But I thought no one would be that mean. But thank you Mih. For making me cringe and paranoid.

They shall all die by my hand. Once I'm in a sealed bunker with a button to drop the nuke.

Edit, just noticed I accidentally voted for them to live. They will never live if they're in my sights. Unless they're big then I won't go anywhere near them.
 
I am scared of them.

But being an australian and having red-backs, funnel webs and drop bears why shouldn't be?
 
Even though we regularly leave the back door open (dad cooks fish now, mom hates the smell), I never see bugs here. I barely ever see spiders either, but when I do they're usually itty-bitty beige ones that I usually just let go free, because even though I don't like bugs, killing them is even worse. The feeling of having to pick up that tissue you just squashed them with, feeling their little bodies crunch under your hand, or the possibility that they may have survived and are waiting to jump out on my hand is just too much for me. I really don't see many spiders or bugs outside either. The only thing you do have to worry about out here sometimes are scorpions, which isn't a problem specifically where I live because I live in a developed area that's been developed for a while. But I know people who live out in newer areas where there's still lots of desert who regularly get scorpions. I even found a scorpion in their bathroom not too long ago. It wasn't even the first scorpion they've had in that room, and they've lived there for two years. :scared:

But if I ever saw a spider that was larger, yes, it would have to be assassinated on the spot, just not by me though. I'd have to get mom to do it.
 
Spiders aren't that bad. Never really bothered me. Miss Ke'ala, my daughter, well that's different story. We actually have to leave the house to calm the spiders down.

Me, I suffer from an astounding case of Apiphobia. Those soul sucking, minions of Satan, and bringers of death. They terrify me.
 
For me it hinges on the size of the spiders, if they're too small for me to pay my cautious attentions I don't really mind leaving them be as they are, or just trample upon them with shoes(with bare foots I'm timid to do so though) - whereas in those moments I spot bigger ones I usually get out of the room screaming out loudly for help, or kill them spraying with an insecticide. :crazy:
 
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Also it is zooming in, Best 3D like gifs are made side to side.

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I'd be scared of poisonous spiders as well. Not the harmless one we have here in our incredible nice and warm country we call Belgium.
 
I like spiders because they're highly useful. I have my own huge pet-spider which builds webs in my sleeping room which are highly efficient at catching flies and other annoying airborne pest insects.
I just clean the spiderwebs when they're full of dead insects or when the web-building gets a little excessive.
Its a symbiosis.
 
A friend of mine had a tarantula. It is a very beautiful spider.

One day, he was showing it to me and I wanted to grab the tarantula and let it crawl on my hand but he stopped me and refused giving me the tarantula.

I really wanted to hold that "thing". :P
 
I generally leave them alone. My grandmother used to tell me that seeing a spider was good luck and killing them was bad luck. This was because back in the day when homes weren't insulated as well, spiders kept disease carrying insects, like mosquitoes, at bay in your home. Although maybe my philosophy is wrong as I've been bitten by a black widow more than once.
 
Depends. If I see a Black Widow or Brown Recluse crawling on my wall, I'll kill it. But if I see a house spider in it's web in the corner, I'll leave it be. They usually starve to death anyway. :(
 
It's asking to be set alight. That's what.

While I have used deadly force dispose of them in the past and I still don't like having them around the house, I tend to leave them be unless they come close to where I sleep or happen to be lurking in my clothes. I hardly ever seem them in any of the bedrooms though, and I've only had to get rid of spider eggs on one occasion a few months ago.

That said, I would be completely comfortable having a tarantula as a pet.
 

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