I found this ugly sucker in front of my house, and since it wasn't in the house on on me, I didn't kill it. Besides, can you imagine the squishy green and yellow spider guts mess this thing would make? I would have to fumigate my shoe, or throw in the trash permanently whatever it was I would kill it with.
Besides, I found out these particular things aren't poisonous or harmful.
But I still don't want the bloody thing crawling down my arm.
That’s the Cross Orbweaver, if you were wondering or didn’t know.
Nearly all spiders are very beneficial. Where I am, we have tons of flying insects outside (especially mosquitoes, which are disease vectors) so we don’t bother the vast majority of the spiders inside. You know what? They do a wonderful job controlling other bugs. I periodically check and relocate the young outside, but otherwise I just let them go as long as they locate their webs out of the way.