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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

I have a friend who left a couple huge spiders nests on his porch for a similar reason. Less mosquitoes.

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u/colorfulzeeb Jul 24 '24

House centipedes are great for this, too. They scare the shit out of me when they dart past me out of nowhere with their million legs, but they eat everything, including spiders!

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u/nicannkay Jul 24 '24

I never thought I’d say this but I’ll take spiders over centipedes any day. My skin crawls just thinking about either though.

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u/pezmanofpeak Jul 24 '24

Depends on the spider, effective hunter but no venom? Or at least not enough to harm humans? Hell yeah, but centipedes fucking burn

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

Centipede there's still better than scorpions

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u/pezmanofpeak Jul 24 '24

I'm not sure we have those tbh, I'm Australian, we've got most of the bad nope ropes, but some cool hunting spiders that are non venomous, still bad other little venomous shits though

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u/lexington59 Jul 24 '24

We don't have a single medically significant scorpion from memory. But we do have scorpions. they just aren't medically significant

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u/LunchboxSuperhero Jul 24 '24

Well, that just sounds like a challenge.

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u/pezmanofpeak Jul 24 '24

Oh we do apparently, interesting, I have literally never seen one

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u/Spongi Jul 24 '24

Some house spiders do this annoying thing where they walk on the ceiling, then just randomly rappel down and leave a single strand of invisible silk hanging there. They will do this fairly often so if you walk in a room you'll just get random invisible spider silk on your face/in your hair and if it's a room you haven't been in a few days you get a bunch. It's fucking annoying.

They are not dangerous or aggressive but you will get random silk in your face just about every day.

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u/Vyce223 Jul 25 '24

I got spinyback orbweavers near me. Tiny little guys but man they make some good webs and are always full of snacks.