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May
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Do you squash spiders or put them outside? · 11:03pm May 10th, 2016

When you find a spider in your house, do you squash it, or do you get out a glass and an envelope and carefully trap it and put it outside?

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If they're in an out of the way corner, I dub them "spider-bro," and leave them to their own devices.

A little too invasive though and I'll just squash them.

I see no point in putting them outside. It's like the difference between disowning a dog or throwing it to the wolves saying they're the same species; house spiders probably didn't get in our houses from outside, they've been adapted to human housing conditions for centuries.

Depends on the type of spider.

Squash them, as long as they're not too big otherwise I just run and hide. I hate spiders.

Put 'em outside if I have to. If it isn't in the way, I'll leave small house spiders where they are. I'd rather have spiders than mosquitos.

Depends on size and location.

If it touches me, it dies.

Spiders are welcome in my house.

I usually leave spiders alive if they're small, but I know my sister's terrified of them, so I usually kill any big or thick spider.

I don't kill. Anything. I can't. Not even tiny flies, let alone spiders.

I put them outside. I don't have a moral problem with squashing them or anything, though.

My house is a dead zone for bugs, any bug that gets inside is killed asap.

It depends on the spider. A brown recluse for example, I squash on sight. Any other spider, I'll trap and gently let them run free in my backyard abducting bugs and feeding on their life force.

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I can't get close enough to them to save them. I don't enjoy killing them anymore, but I couldn't even use one of those new spider-trapping sticks. :(

I hardly ever get spiders in my house. I kinda wish that I did. We had a bad batch of degu food a while back that I guess had a bunch of dinky moth eggs in it, and now we can't get rid of the things.

When I'm at work at the library it's always glass-and-paper time, mostly because we get awesome wolf spiders the size of Kennedy half-dollars and its always fun carting one of those guys out past the girls working the reference desk.

If it ain't on me, I leave it be.

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There's spiders hiding all over my house and I leave them alone unless they're too large, in which case I put them outside. Besides, leaving them in means they can take care of the Fly's, they're the ones really annoy me.

Burn the house down as discreetly as possible like so.

Unless the spider violates The Compact*, I tend to leave it alone.

* The Compact includes things like: do not startle me; do not come within reach of me; do not crawl over my head on the ceiling and then bungee-jump down in front of my face; absolutely do not crawl over my head on the ceiling and then bungee-jump down in front of my face when I'm in the shower. All perfectly reasonable conditions.

I weg 'em outside. Apart from anything else, spider-goop is a chore to get out of the carpets. Our dog kills them on sight.

I had a friend at university who would eat them. Like, alive. Just pluck them straight off the wall and chew.

Glass 'em and put 'em outside. Alternately, watch them with vague interest as they wander the walls for literal days, until they vanish.

I used to get squicked by bugs. Being a preschool teacher, however, has trained me to always put bugs outside. After all, like I tell my students, "that's their home. You need to be gentle with bugs just like you are with people."

One time I actually left a spider alone in my bathroom, and I got to watch it's eggs hatch over about a month. It started with a webby egg sac. Then one day I walked in and the sac was gone and there were a bunch of little tiny black dots all around it. The little dots gradually spread out and then one day they had all disappeared.

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I almost never goosh spiders--I'd rather have them than any of the things that they eat scurrying around my house (that I'm lucky enough to live in a part of the world very nearly devoid of excessively large and/or poisonous spiders helps). But their web-homes, including eggsacks, get vacuumed up if they're in a visible place, so I guess I'm less a spider murderer than a spider abortionist.

"If you wish to live and thrive, Let a spider run alive."

I let them be and go about my business. I never find anything more than dust-mote size house spiders doing their thing, not hurting anybody. If I came across a bigger one, I'd likely at least attempt to catch it, but knowing me, I would probably hurt it in the process.
Either way, unless maybe it was a highly poisonous spider, I wouldn't kill it.

Besides, as a story writer, icing reps of Anansi is never good.

I tend to relocate them to the front or back porch, near the doorway, unless there is a web already in place, then I just fling them into the yard. But I just use my hand, or a stick, for that task, depending on size and markings.

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We did the same thing, called her Bathroom Spider. One of the kids stuck around to take mama's place, she was dubbed Bathroom Spider Jr.

Spiders are welcome in my house, so long as they mind their own business and refrain from touching me. Failure to do so is grounds for eviction (in a nice bush).

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...huh.

...T- that's an almost perfect summary of Charlotte's Web! you clever fiend, you...:moustache:

That's a trick question. The answer is neither.

You burn it, and wherever it was found, the fuck down.

I put them outside, but being Australian it's less "glass and envelope" and more "stock whip and lion-tamer's chair".

:derpytongue2:

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I generally do this with spiders in the rest of my house (no real point to messing with them, and they cut down on bugs), but spiders in the bathroom and my bedroom get kicked out.

My wife LOVES spiders, so they always get gently trapped and put outside.

Depending on my mood and available scooping materials, either may apply. Sometimes neither if they aren't bothering anyone.

1) If it's building its web in an out of the way corner, I leave it be—fewer bugs that way.
2) I it's one of those wandering spiders that don't stay put, it gets carried outside.
3) If it's a black widow, Raid.

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3936206 This man has the right idea!

I squash them just as I'd squash any other bug I see.

always put it outside. If my mom or sister asks me to kill them, I only pretend to, then sneak them outside.

Unless it's as big as my large toe I let it be.

If they are in a bedroom or bathroom they die, but if there in a corner somewhere else then I leave them, unless they're on me then I kill them.

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If Charlotte didn't save the pig from slaughter by writing stuff in her web, but instead sat in the corner of a bathroom eating mosquitos, then yes, it's exactly the same.

Came to comments looking for the "reason for asking" mentioned in the blog tags. Left disappointed. :raritydespair:

I'm a send-outsider, though. Which, if you consider it in the context of the wider circle of life, is a little weird. If we're doing it to be gentle with nature, we're saving basically an insect apex predator and ensuring that hundreds of other bugs will go on to get murdered.

So I think it's actually more along the lines of domestication. They're just not quite so cute as dogs (also predators) or cats (still predators) .

We usually catch them and put them outside where they can eat the insects that damage our vegetables and truly bug us, except in winter when we mostly just leave them alone.

Terrified of spiders, still never ever want to kill one. No matter the situation, no matter the species, get someone else to put it outside.

It's a living thing. I don't have any right to kill it, for any reason. But it does confuse the heck outta people when I go get people and then stop them from squishing the damned things.

Most I just leave alone. It's too much trouble to catch and release. The larger and more deadly Australian species get bug-spray from a save distance. Redbacks are common in my area, and they can really mess up your day.

As kids, my siblings and I would collect or interact with just about any kind of critters we could find, even letting wild tarantulas walk all over us.

But after too many spiders dropping next to me from the ceiling (including black widows), or running up my arm toward my neck, or running across my pillow in the dark as they're attracted by the light of my tablet, I don't let myself grieve overmuch for them. Normally I just leave spiders alone, but the worst offenders like these get squished with extreme prejudice.

3936067 Same here. And if they get especially creepy looking, I'll deploy either old college calculus books, which are the bug squashing equivalent of this:

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3936331 That means Sleipnir was a spider. :pinkiegasp:

Oh yeah, jumping spiders, as clever and darn cute as they are, aren't subject to The Compact. We're chill.

I just them chill in a corner or something. Most spiders are a good thing to have in the house, at least compared with the insects they help get rid of.

Spiders are predators. They eat other things I don't want in my house. If he is alive, then he is eating. Therefore, I leave him to do his job and give him a mental pat on the back.

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