I get a lot of spiders in my bedroom during the winter. The ceiling of my basement is coated with spiderwebs, so I reckon there's a pretty respectable arachnid community going on down there. When the heating ducts are active in the winter, I believe they get blown up into my bedroom.

Usually in the winter I'll actually check my walls and ceiling for spiders before I go to sleep. I'm not especially frightened of them, but I'd prefer that they didn't, you know, crawl on me when I'm sleeping and all.

Spiders? Please. You want to know what's really nasty. I mean really, really nasty? Millipedes. The little brown ones that come out of nowhere whenever it rains. They breed like bacteria, crawl all over everything, and if you disturb them in any way they will defend themselves by releasing the most utterly foul and noxious stench you will ever smell. My room is in the basement, and I have to deal with these monstrosities every summer.

I only kill the dangerous spiders, or the ones I don't recognize... because spiders eat others bugs, and I live in a hot humid area... so...

Was going to say daddy-long-legs weren't spiders, glad I checked wiki first. We have some sort of bug here thats quite similiar to a Daddy Long-legs, but its body is much smaller, doesnt even appear to have a segmented body, and only has 6 legs. Everyone calls them Daddy long-legs...

The ones on wiki look sort of similiar, but their bodies are different... and they have 8 legs... >.>

I dont have a "problem" with spiders, but I consider it my prerogative to deal with them as I wish when I discover them in my living area.

People like my fiancee say "you dont have to kill it, its just a living thing.". To them I say, "Yes, but it has encroached on my living space. Do you think for one second that if I stuck my hand into that bastard's nest he wouldnt at least consider me a danger and therefore a candidate for defensive response?"

Whats good for the spider is good for the human. Not my fault that he doesnt comprehend that he's trespassing. The minute the spiders make the distinction between actual threats and, say, a two-year old child reaching under the porch for a toy, and stop giving children toxic shock and necrosis, I'll make the distinction to stop spreading their asses across the wall with a shoe.

I used to have a terrible centipede problem in my old house. I had so many damn centipedes it was crazy. They are harmless, but ugly and freaky looking. Especially when they get huge.


As far as spiders go, I'm lucky that Black Widows and poisonous spiders don't reside in Philly.

When I was little, we lived in a region where black widows were very common. During a few weeks in spring each year, tons of young black widows would hatch, and we would play squash the black widows... probably wasn't the safest of games... eh?

Living further inland than most people would probably like to, there are alot of spiders here all-year-round.

I just find them randomly climbing up a wall or hanging from the ceiling. They're everywhere, expecially in Autumn.

Mostly they're those fly-eating spiders, whatever you call 'em, them big brown hairy motherfuckers. And those daddy-long-legs. And redbacks... Ocassionally the white-tail or the plain old black hairy spider.

As you probably figured, yeah, I know nothing at all about spiders... All I know is they love my house.