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spring has sprung, tell me again why I should not kill spiders?
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Posted by lisa11310 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 4, 08 at 0:09
| ok as usual there are wolf spiders making their way into my lower level split ranch. They are small at this point...only about dime size. I found 3 in 2 minutes. This is the first day it was above 50 here and they showed up right on schedule. I am a real spider phobe, I HATE them...someone tell me why I should not kill them and that they will not bite me. I hate killing things. Can anybody help me be less afraid of them? |
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RE: spring has sprung, tell me again why I should not kill spider
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| I have always had a spider phobia and it only seemed to make them want to crawl on me more. I strongly avoid pesticides and believe in natural predator/prey balance. Once your spiders have had their fill of bugs, they will hunt elsewhere. They are a gardeners best friend-just wear gloves to avoid bites. As afraid of spiders as you are, imagine their reaction with you? After all, they don't go out of their way to bite. Have been tempted to go a pet store and handle tarantulas. The only way to overcome a phobia is to face it head on. For right now, I just respect them. If they come in the house, they get sucked up in the central vac. Outside, they are OK-they seem to know that somehow. LOL |
RE: spring has sprung, tell me again why I should not kill spider
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| lisa, I am a 'recovering arachniphobe', too. ;-) My weapon against the fear was education. I made a determined effort to learn everything I could about the spiders that I came across regularly....their habits, life cycle, food sources, etc. Once I did that, they became predictable rather than frightening. Now, I can identify nearly every spider that I see and pretty much know how it's going to behave! See? Not so scary. As far as any spiders that may enter the home....the little cobweb spiders can stay, but anything else is flattened. |
RE: spring has sprung, tell me again why I should not kill spider
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| I too, used to be an arachniphobe. The only way I would identify a spider was on the bottom of my shoe ;-). But, I have been "cured" for about 10 years now. My son LOVED spiders when he was a kid. We went to spider exhibits, night-time spider hunts, and lots of other creepy spider nature walks and talks. I appreciate them now. I keep a bunch of those small insect collection jars around the house and I faithfully scoop them up and admire them in the jar, then let them outside. They are beneficial and we live together here in peace. But, I did nuke the huge female black widow I found a couple of years ago in our garage. I wasn't too keen on her setting up a nursery in my garage. |
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