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[SomeStupidGuy]

Brown recluses, maybe?

Pretty much mainly just this, from what I know.
Honestly, even the most deadly spiders are pretty benign if you don't pester 'em. So I wouldn't really worry about spiders in general.

[Urist McOriginalname]

Unless you find a spider egg sac under your bed, you shouldn't bother leaving your PC and actually doing something about that small spider in the corner of the ceilings.

But, if you wake up several times with a spider on your pillow, just accept the fact that spiders are here to stay and move your bed to the middle of the room (no wall crawling spider B.S.) to solve the problem.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

Unless you find a spider egg sac under your bed, you shouldn't bother leaving your PC and actually doing something about that small spider in the corner of the ceilings.

But, if you wake up several times with a spider on your pillow, just accept the fact that spiders are here to stay and move your bed to the middle of the room (no wall crawling spider B.S.) to solve the problem.

:l

I haven't seen any spiders around my current house, but I'm just asking because why not learn more about the friendly little living things in the world that people are so misinformed about?

[wierd]

I usually have no predjudice against spiders. They are mostly harmless.

I have exceptions to that though: brown recluse and black widows get killed on sight. Any spider that might decide my blankets are a nice place to hide while I am at work for the day, and which will bite me without my feeling it when I fall down like a sack of idaho spuds when I crash and burn, and who's bite will cause me to risk getting gangrene and other nasty issues, is not welcome.

They have a right to live. They do not have a right to live *in my house.* They refuse to live outside? Well, then they can die inside.

Other spiders though? Why bother worrying about them? They really can't hurt me. They cause no real mischief by being indoors. I ignore them.

*shrug

[Urist McOriginalname]

Unless you find a spider egg sac under your bed, you shouldn't bother leaving your PC and actually doing something about that small spider in the corner of the ceilings.

But, if you wake up several times with a spider on your pillow, just accept the fact that spiders are here to stay and move your bed to the middle of the room (no wall crawling spider B.S.) to solve the problem.

:l

I haven't seen any spiders around my current house, but I'm just asking because why not learn more about the friendly little living things in the world that people are so misinformed about?

Brohad you think you're smarter than me? I've got a 100 problems but a spider ain't one ... even though i have woke up twice to meet a hairy little friend right next to my face and by that i mean a big spider, not what you thought, you pervert.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I thought it too. But I was distracted by "Brohad".

[Dwarf4Explosives]

I'm generally paranoid about the smaller ones, but anything that doesn't look like a spindly stick figure (I think my aversion to the small ones may have to do with how much they look like a bunch of hairs) I'm willing to be nice to it and attempt to bring it outside somewhere.

Also, what I meant with "internally contained" was that it doesn't require (much) extra material to be delivered to the creature for it to continue with it's photosynthesis. Plants require lots of water to continue with photosynthesis. Oxygen, seeing as it can be reused over and over again as long as photosynthesis continues, is not an issue.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

Unless you find a spider egg sac under your bed, you shouldn't bother leaving your PC and actually doing something about that small spider in the corner of the ceilings.

But, if you wake up several times with a spider on your pillow, just accept the fact that spiders are here to stay and move your bed to the middle of the room (no wall crawling spider B.S.) to solve the problem.

:l

I haven't seen any spiders around my current house, but I'm just asking because why not learn more about the friendly little living things in the world that people are so misinformed about?

Brohad you think you're smarter than me? I've got a 100 problems but a spider ain't one ... even though i have woke up twice to meet a hairy little friend right next to my face and by that i mean a big spider, not what you thought, you pervert.

:l
Okay.

[alway]

I have exceptions to that though: brown recluse and black widows get killed on sight.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2013/10/28/spider_bite_symptoms_brown_recluse_bites_are_often_a_misdiagnosis.html

Fun fact: even the 'deadly' spiders aren't generally dangerous. In the case of the brown recluse, they're actually quite common within their range, but bites from them are almost non-existent.
From another link:

In about 7 minutes, 8 students collected 60 brown recluses, picking them all up with their fingers and not one kid suffered a bite. An even more amazing story is that of a woman in Lenexa, Kansas who collected 2,055 brown recluse spiders in 6 months in 1850s-built home.  This family of 4 has been living there 8 years now and still not one evident bite.  (see Vetter and Barger 2002, Journal of Medical Entomology 39: 948-951). When you find brown recluses in an adequate environment, you do not find one, you find dozens. And yet, the people who live with these spiders rarely get bitten nor do they run around in constant fear.

Then there's the widow spiders. They're the only one that's somewhat dangerous, but only if you don't take precautions. Firstly, though, I should clarify that their bite generally isn't fatal in healthy adults (children and elderly can be killed though); it simply makes you have a bad week of hallucinations. While they are dangerous if you have kids around (because kids are generally stupid and pick up and poke at anything that moves), the only real danger you have is digging through a pile of clothes that have been sitting around in a closet for months. In general, you're about 30 times more likely to die to a deer walking in front of your car.

[Comrade P.]

Best spider I know.

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DERAIL! Sotty for that, could not keep that.

[Elephant Parade]

Does Limbo have spiders?

I was enjoying playing it, but I had this weird feeling that a spider was going to pop out at me and I stopped.

[20firebird]

Limbo, the game with the little boy? Yeah, there's a huge spider that chases you down. You eventually cut all its legs off and roll it into a lake.
Poor spider.

[Graknorke]

So apparently spiders are frequently plagued with horrific parasites. You should feel bad for them, really. They have it tough.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/spider.htm

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Each of those parasites carries a horde of mini-parasites. It's mites and ticks all the way down.

[Gentlefish]

Fun fact: Brown recluses only live in the Eastern US. Nowhere close to the West. And Hobo spiders do not cause the same symptoms;

Funner Fact: Even though Brown Reculses DO NOT live in the west, people are still diagnosed with Brown Recluse Bite in places like California.

Also all the house spiders in the Pacific NorthWest all came from Europe.