I find spiders to be small easily killed critters.
“”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!
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?)