I’ve let lady bugs, love bugs and small wolf spiders crawl on me.
Small wolf spiders are the only spider I’m not terrified of.
I’m sitting wondering who the hell would take the “shell” off the lady bugs in the first place.
This is a very interesting question. My daughter loves them.
This is a subject Isaac Asimov has explored at length - the way we fear and kill “ugly” things.
I will never forget watching a daddy long-legs in the garden with my son.
He watched with delight as the daddy long-legs crawled down a weed and noto the ground.
There, another daddy long-legs came up to the first. They touched antennae and began caressing.
“Is that a Mommy long-legs,” he asked.
I laughed.
“No, son. That’s a daddy long-legs, too.”
My boy lifted his right foot and quickly stomped on both of them.
There was a sort of squirt of guts, but otherwise just a mess of legs.
He looked at me and said-
“Well that’s enough of that gay shit in OUR garden!”
No frickin way!!!! That's just wrong.....
Jumping spiders are great... fun to handle and flash signals at, ...and cute.
My favorite when I was a little girl was Phidippus audax, the Audacious/Daring Jumping Spider.
When I was a kid I played with stink bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, pillbugs, and those little black beetles.