The longleg spiders in my house stay around the ceiling near one of the windows, plenty of moths show up every once in a while. Also a bunch of tiny, pencil lead sized flying things.
Meanwhile, the ants all run around the floor.
You need to bring her offerings.
Ants should be allowed they are cool
But how can I stop the spiders? We have so many…
I think you swallow a frog?
Spiders will die off when their food supplies decrease. Spiders are also quite hostile to each other, so they’ll never get overpopulated.
Meanwhile, the spiders I have begrudging let live have caught nothing because they take up residence behind the toilet and inside an unfilled cabinet (that was fun to discover)
The flies are operating freely! I’m gaining nothing from this ceasefire!
I had a spider in a web right over the fuckin hole in the wall where all the ants enterd. This fucking guy did nothing. Just sat there watching food parade in and out all day all night. Like, come on!
them staying in out of the way places are the reason I like them. If they are alive then their bellies are full and they are catching something.
You’d be surprised at how frequently cockroaches hide behind toilets.
o7, spider
I’m late to the party, but I don’t see this linked yet Can I introduce you all to Travis? This guy does deep dives into the spiders you might trip over in your house and has recently started also doing general spider knowledge as well.
Awe yiss. New channel.
There’s one on zebra jumpers. Gonna have to get to that when I got a spare half hour.
Love those little guys!
Except people don’t say that …
They say " I don’t want BUGS in my house"
I always worry that the spiders I leave alive will have ten million spider babies. Is that not a concern for any of you?
It’s not .
Most of them will just go outside due to their territorial nature.Not sure why someone would downvote you for this. Spiders are territorial and will cannibalize each other if they’re unable to spread far enough apart. They’ll never reach the insane population densities of social insects like ants or termites.
I’m quite okay with spiders as long as they stay …over there….
Interestingly, they’re also smart enough to recognize this arrangement. They don’t bother me. I don’t bother them. Wonderful roommates, really.
(Also, for people wondering how to get rid of ants… clean your house. They’re coming in because they find food and shelter. Get rid of the food and they’re less inclined to stick around. Same for flies. Especially house flies. Though there’s always going to be some fruit flies- they come in with the fruit.)
I like to think of myself as a big spider in a room with small spiders.
They get the edges and corners and I get the center.Occasionally, I go around clearing the old webs, so that new spiders can come and make new webs and catch some mosquitoes.
If a spider invades my bed/kitchen/computer, I get rid of it.
Ants are pretty annoying, but are useful too.
They let me know if I dropped some foodstuff and didn’t clean it properly, by banding around it.
So I can just go and clean it and the ants stop coming.
As someone who can’t tolerate most insects in his home: Spiders are welcome. Always have been. And since Adrian Tchaikovskys Children of Time, I started naming them.
yes. they keep to themselves in nice corners or nooks and weed out the pests.
Are they all called Portia, Fabian, Viola and Bianca? (That book was so good)
I’m listening to book 2 in the series at the moment. So good also!
Yes, actually. That one gigantic one on my balcony is named Portia. The one behind my bathroom mirror is named Fabian. So is the one next to my kitchen fan. I just figured they’re both male. Probably.
Gigantic? How big is Portia?
Ok I think I need to paddle back a bit. Her phat ass is roughly 2cm in diameter. Which is laughable for most of the world, but it’s gigantic for German standards. I am almost sure it’s a Eratigena atrica or Große Winkelspinne.
Spiders are not technically insects so you are consistent
Spiders won’t eliminate your bug problem either. The presence of predators in an environment doesn’t imply all of their prey will soon go extinct.
You eliminate bugs by preventing their entry, reducing or removing their food and water sources, and/or interrupting or preventing their mating cycles. Or occasionally deploying something that kills everything in an area (though if you don’t also do the other steps above, they’ll eventually return).
The only spiders I want gone are the ones that can kill me, and the ones that get too close to me.
If I see one setting up a web in the distant corner? Hell yeah Bro catch all the pests you can.
Crawl toward me less than a foot away? Sorry smash but you sealed your own fate.
Yah I have a loose treaty in my home too. If I see you and you’re not racing towards my face (or dropping on my head)…no one has to get hurt. If you’re super active and potentially in my way…I have a little bug scoop and off you go back into nature. Also…please don’t make your homes in my bedroom…any other room is fine, basement is preferred.
However if you are hell bent on scaring the crap outta me, or crawling up on me…I cannot guarantee my fear reflexes won’t smash you. I will feel badly though.
This holds for all insects in my home except earwigs, mosquitos and super fast centipedes (I catch and release the dopey ones tho)
Tourist version -
Me - here’s your chalet. Remember, it’s very well insulated for the winter weather, so in summer just keep the windows and doors closed during the day and it’ll stay cool inside for the same reason, then you can open the windows in the evening. Otherwise it’ll just be boiling hot and full of flies. There’s no need for AC.
Guests - ok that makes sense
Guests two days later - MY CHALET IS BOILING HOT AND FULL OF FLIES YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT I NEED AC
Me under my breath - seriously fuck off you stupid cunts
This summer I’m stepping on the scorpions, because I’ve seen them several times killing spiders.
Get a cat and solve both issues
Cats make for pretty poor insect control. They mostly kill spiders, not “pest” insects.
I keep telling my cat to be a hunter, and all she does is roll around on the floor and go “merop? Mrrrrr? MEROWP!” as the insects dance around.
Mine stare at them, maybe do a light paw and meow like a maniac at them, they’re not good pest control.
Luckily, the gratuitous amount of spiders seem to do their job, there’s a lot of lake flies!midges/gnats but I’ve never seen them or ants in the house, just spiders.
downside: still got bugs
upside: holy shit adorable
But don’t get my cat.
I have 3 cats. Luckily they don’t hurt the spider. Sadly, they won’t attack the flies though.
Any spider smaller than a quarter is welcome in my home. Any spider larger gets served a non deadly eviction notice
Spiders are just an indicator of how bad the problem is - you’ve got buffet level infestation. Time to look for things to seal, trim back plants from House, vacuum, etc.
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