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by 3K7m7bUZyWA1KCD 2824 days ago
I'd take 1000 spiders over 100 mosquitos anytime. I consider spiders to be most useful insects you could have infesting your house, though on the other hand I wouldn't feel comfortable if I saw more than a couple in a room.
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Imagine trained spiders. They stay out of sight, only spin webs in places we don't walk around, or build the web every night then tear it down before we wake up.
The one living in the side mirror of my car all summer seems to have learned not to build where my window will break it. Oh and the one on the side of my garage where I take garbage 3 times a day stopped building to the fence after just a few breaks, so early in the summer ive forgotten how annoying it was to get a face full of web every morning.
Ob-Nit: spiders are not insects. They have eight legs, insects have six.
One morning there were 250+ baby spiders (huntsman I think) in a corner of my kitchen ceiling once a couple of years ago, moving out around the kitchen. I counted them as I squashed them. I like spiders, but the thought of 250+ big spiders inside was too freaky.