Posted on 12/13/2024 10:14:59 AM PST by DallasBiff
Fear of spiders becomes a phobia when it consumes your thoughts, interferes with your daily activities and keeps you from socializing with your family and friends. Symptoms of arachnophobia include sweating or shaking and tightness in your chest or rapid heartbeat. Behavior therapies along with relaxation and breathing exercises are the main treatment options
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Well any way an anecdote, when I was a kid we would catch flies, and throw them into a spider web, and watch the spider pounce on the fly.
Have fun its friday.
I find spiders to be small easily killed critters.
Spiders are good critters, but belong outside in the gardens, not in a garage or house.
“when I was a kid we would catch flies, and throw them into a spider web....”
I still do. It never gets old.
“”I find spiders to be small easily killed critters.””
I detest anything that crawls!!!! I remember when our daughter was young and would see a spider in her bedroom. She’d call for me but I wasn’t about to do anything about it so I’d send her dad in and he’d grab a Kleenex, take a swipe at it, then proclaim, “I dropped it”. NOOOOOOOOO——even if you did drop it, you don’t say so as now she won’t go to sleep!!!!
I remember growing up in upstate NY, we had apple tree worms...they always managed to get on me somehow...even at a band concert outdoors..I managed to keep playing my instrument but grew up disliking all crawly things!
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I like my kitchen spider... a very large wolfspider type helper about the size of my hand who often hides in the fruit bowl and gets all the gnats the bananas attract when the windows are open.
Admittedly it can be a bit startling when one of them suddenly runs from room to room, always high up on the wall, like it is saying “Look at me!”
Yes, because the big hard to kill spiders are extinct thanks to our efforts these past million years.
Personally I don't mind them as much as centipedes and millipedes. It's the leg number, I think. Two is best, none (snakes) very bad; four ok, our young go about on four; six is creepy, eight is worse, a hundred (centipedes) is awful and more than that is utterly atrocious. The centipedes and beyond can't be rendered extinct because they scurry away too fast while we are still recoiling in horror.
Furthermore, nothing with more than 4 legs has any business in a human house, especially if they are winged. (Imagine a canary with four legs. If not for the plumage, would you keep one around?)
Actually I don’t mind a few spiders in my house. They keep the other bugs at bay and they just hang out in a corner someplace, sitting in their web and minding their own business.
same — we’re a spider friendly home, but there aren’t very many. Generally, we discourage excessive webs/nesting
Read a great Sci Fi story one time - premise was that our instinctive horror of spiders is because they’re not from this planet. Turned out that it was we who weren’t from this planet. Now I feel like a planetary conqueror when I goosh ‘em.
I hate it when I walk into a low-hanging web, though, not seeing it in time to avoid it.
I kept a female black widow in an inverted quart canning jar with the ring lid and a paper coffee filter as the dome for fresh air some decades ago. Found it as a juvenile under a desk. It lived for nine months. Big, healthy and jet black with the red hourglass. Feeding time amounted to quietly and carefully removing the lid and covering an unsuspecting cockroach in my modest college apartment kitchen, and replacing the lid. The spider took mere seconds to ensnare, bite, and wrap up it’s dinner. Fascinating to watch. To this day I put spiders outside rather than kill them when possible. Brown recluses are the exception to that rule.
I simply could not restrain myself: “Smart Pig”
Charlotte’s Web is the story of an unlikely friendship between a runt of a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte. One day, Wilbur hears from one of the farm animals that he is destined to be Christmas dinner. However, one animal is determined to save him, Charlotte. She starts to weave messages into her web about how incredible Wilbur is. Will it be enough to save the pig?
“Have fun its friday. “
OK.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Eight Legged Freaks):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKscsIp_0Y
Priscilla Hernandez | The Itsy Bitsy Spider Creepy Scary Version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZW_XG-rqZY
No, total eradication of the spider with extreme prejudice is the only solution......
“I kept a female black widow...”
Too scary for me.
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