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Can you please tell me fun facts about spiders?

AuroraBorealis

AuroraBorealis

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I'm really scared of spiders and it's annoying. Where I live, there are no really dangerous spiders. I'm an adult, I should be able to approach a scared little animal without losing it.

Are there people on here who like spiders, maybe even whose special interest they are, and who can tell me funny, cute fun-facts about spiders, so I hopefully start to find them cute and interesting, rather than alien-like and terrifying?

I really appreciate it! But please no photos
 
There is nothing wrong about being afraid of spiders. If it makes you feel any better, a friend of my husband's (a grown man in his 40s) is scared of rats and he ran away screaming when I brought one of my cute little harmless rats outside with me. Yes, he literally ran into his car even though he knew my little rat won't hurt anybody. He's an extroverted, ''alpha-male'' neurotypical too yet he went to pieces over a harmless, cute little rat.

So there is nothing unusual or wrong about having a phobia. Just embrace your phobia. Phobias of spiders are actually the most common phobias among humans, the big house spiders that are supposed to be the most harmless are actually the ones most people are afraid of. I know I am. I'm sure if you tell people you don't like spiders, most would agree with you. Or if they like spiders themselves, phobias of spiders are so common and even normal, that they'll hardly think you're weird or unusual.
 
Misty Avich said:
There is nothing wrong about being afraid of spiders. If it makes you feel any better, a friend of my husband's (a grown man in his 40s) is scared of rats and he ran away screaming when I brought one of my cute little harmless rats outside with me. Yes, he literally ran into his car even though he knew my little rat won't hurt anybody. He's an extroverted, ''alpha-male'' neurotypical too yet he went to pieces over a harmless, cute little rat.

So there is nothing unusual or wrong about having a phobia. Just embrace your phobia. Phobias of spiders are actually the most common phobias among humans, the big house spiders that are supposed to be the most harmless are actually the ones most people are afraid of. I know I am. I'm sure if you tell people you don't like spiders, most would agree with you. Or if they like spiders themselves, phobias of spiders are so common and even normal, that they'll hardly think you're weird or unusual.
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That you, that's nice of you :) but I'm not really ashamed of my phobia or anything. It's just inconvenient and I love animals in general, and I see no reason to be so afraid of spiders. Also, I just find it annoying to not be able to remove a spider by myself when it's bothering me. It's inconvenient, you know? It takes so much unnecessary energy and hustle.
Often, I get less scared of things when I know more about them or when I can connect cute things to them. Like, telling myself that that spider must be so afraid of me right now does already help, but it's not enough to be able to get close to it, let alone touch it or remove it. The only thing I can manage so far in an emergency is throw a shoe at them or something. But I don't want to kill them, it's not their fault that I'm scared of them.
 
Well, as "creepy-crawly" as they seem to make a lot of people feel, as an indoor/outdoor gardener, I view them as protectors against other bugs. If I see one in the house crawling where I don't want them to be, I will most likely just trap/catch it and then drop him off in one of my plant pots. The other thing to remember, if they are in your environment, they are there because they are hunting for food. In other words, they keep your home clean of other little critters. Just like how some people keep cats or snakes around to reduce rodent populations, I treat spiders as a useful little hunters. Spiders are NOT at all interested in humans. Most see us as literally a giant threat to them and will do everything they can to get away from us. If you've somehow managed to get bitten by a spider it's because it was defending itself against you trying to slap it away or by some surprise movement that scared them.
 
Do you know the story of Charlotte's Web? Charlotte is a barn spider who uses her web to help save the life of a pig named Wilbur. Obviously, it's fictional but it made me think of spiders as wise and kind creatures.

Spiders are talented! The webs they create are amazing geometric creations and often they can do it just over night. A spider's web is an incredible mixture of strength, flexibility, and practicality. It is a perfect balance of form and function.

Spiders are afraid of you. If you talk to them and tell them you want to be friends, it can change the way that you react to them. It can change YOU when you say, "Hey little guy. I know you're afraid. I'm afraid, too. But really, we can just exist in peace together."
 
AuroraBorealis said:
That you, that's nice of you :) but I'm not really ashamed of my phobia or anything. It's just inconvenient and I love animals in general, and I see no reason to be so afraid of spiders. Also, I just find it annoying to not be able to remove a spider by myself when it's bothering me. It's inconvenient, you know? It takes so much unnecessary energy and hustle.
Often, I get less scared of things when I know more about them or when I can connect cute things to them. Like, telling myself that that spider must be so afraid of me right now does already help, but it's not enough to be able to get close to it, let alone touch it or remove it. The only thing I can manage so far in an emergency is throw a shoe at them or something. But I don't want to kill them, it's not their fault that I'm scared of them.
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Ah okay. I'm terrified of spiders too but I could never kill them, which is why it's an ordeal when there's one in my home, because I don't want it there but I don't want to kill it but I'm scared to go near it.
I also don't like the way spiders leave exoskeletons behind. So creepy!

Ever since I've had pet rats we haven't had any spiders in our home, so I reckon spiders are deterred by the scent of rats lol. So solution? Get pet rats!
 
The jumping spider species Bagheera kiplingi is mostly herbivorous, about 90% of its diet consists of Beltian bodies, which are nubs rich in sugar, fats, and protein that grow on leaflets and leaf stalks of some species of acacia tree.

Yes, there exists a species of vegetarian spider (well mostly vegetarian lol)
 
A couple of facts;

Spiders have blue blood. In human blood oxygen is bound to hemoglobin, a molecule that contains iron and the iron gives the blood its red color. In spiders, oxygen is bound to hemocyanin, a molecule that contains copper instead of iron.

Humans have muscles on the outside of their skeleton, spiders have muscles on the inside. A spider’s skeleton, the exoskeleton, covers and protects the spiders muscles.

And a fact about what I think could be the silliest spider:

The bite of the Brazilian wandering spider can cause long and painful erections in human males.

Is it just me or is that kinda funny? It just seems so odd and a little hilarious.
 
I was scared of spiders when younger but somehow grew more tolerant. As time went on I also began to feel more that all life has value and shouldn't be harmed unnecessarily. So I thought more about spiders as living creatures much like myself, just trying to make their way in the world.

As a result I have become somewhat protective of them, even to the point I don't mind them living in the house. I don't want them in the bedroom but elsewhere is ok. Mostly we have wolf spiders in the basement'and they are sorta helpful in they keep smaller more harmful bugs out (ie fleas, ticks).

The wolf spiders can grow to great size and are very keen to stay out your way. I kind of befriended one that lived behind the washer for about 6 months. I would just say hello when doing the daily wash. He did not seem at all perturbed by me or the washing. But one day I found she had passed away. It looked like natural causes, her time was just done. I say she because she left a pretty far advanced cocoon of babies that my wife asked me to get rid of.
But I wasn't going to just put it outside where they would have little chance. So I moved it into the space between the drop ceiling and the floor above with opening to the inside house and the outside via a nearby dryer vent with gaps.

My wife would have been very mad if she found out. :D
 
Forest Cat said:
A couple of facts;

Spiders have blue blood. In human blood oxygen is bound to hemoglobin, a molecule that contains iron and the iron gives the blood its red color. In spiders, oxygen is bound to hemocyanin, a molecule that contains copper instead of iron.

Humans have muscles on the outside of their skeleton, spiders have muscles on the inside. A spider’s skeleton, the exoskeleton, covers and protects the spiders muscles.

And a fact about what I think could be the silliest spider:

The bite of the Brazilian wandering spider can cause long and painful erections in human males.

Is it just me or is that kinda funny? It just seems so odd and a little hilarious.
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Viagra Spiders

:D
 
They have tiny little babies that are very cute, and their spider webs are pretty. So picture a happy spidery family. Mama spider, papa spider, and a bunch of bratty tiny arachnids
 
I’m sorry you won’t get any help here. I also want to learn more about spiders without looking them up. They are the ugly side of Mother Nature.
 
Some tarantulas let frogs near their nest so they can kill intruders that enter the nest. The frogs protect their baby eggs and the nest. I like frogs and I think that’s cool. It’s a symbiotic relationship.
 
I love spiders and value their skill at trapping other insects in my home. I let their webs stay up in the corners inside my house.

Where I live, there are spiders whose back is bright red and white. They are called clown spiders because their decoration looks like a clown face.

There is a large garden spider whose webs are large and have a zig-zag of extra white webbing down the center. My personal private name for them is zipper spiders.

I once had a black widow spider living in an outside vent near the back door. She wasn’t hurting anybody. We just shared our living space.

I think all the web spinning spiders are female. Might it help if you thought of them as mothers?
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
I love spiders and value their skill at trapping other insects in my home. I let their webs stay up in the corners inside my house.

Where I live, there are spiders whose back is bright red and white. They are called clown spiders because their decoration looks like a clown face.
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Yikes! I just googled clown spider. They should be called the lucha libre spiders!
 
Go look up peacock spiders. They're tiny and super cute. It's always great to find one but they are super small.
 
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