I still don't know why most people are so afraid of our Arachnid Friends.
Although probably the only reason they don't activally try to kill US is because we're so much bigger.
Yeah, pretty much. Many of the orb-weavers are so nearly blind and hard-wired for predatory behavior that their mating dances are not so much to get females in the mood or prove a male's fitness as it is to just say "I'm one of your own kind, please don't eat me." And even then, the males tend to bring along snacks to distract the female with while they get in and get out as fast as possible.
But on the plus side, the
overwhelming majority of spiders use neurotoxins that are essentially useless against humans, and some scientists believe may actually have theraputic benefits. Not so much because humans are immune as it is because spiders have dosages of nervous system-paralyzing venom designed to take down a nervous system the size of a grain of sand, and our brains are about a hundred times more massive than their entire body.
To a spider's perspective, attacking a human is like attacking a mountain that will get angry at you and attack back. It's something you just don't want to do.
Plus they eat mosquitos and mites that would otherwise be parasites on humans, and they eat crop-ruining pests, so spiders in real life are overall beneficial to humans.
That said, magically
GIANT spiders are gonna eat ya.
Plus, the brown recluse is a type of spider that doesn't use one of those paralytic venoms, and it was added into the game because it's got a right nasty bite that basically just causes extreme freakin' pain.