9 reasons to make you do not kill spiders in your home
Spiders are horrible, eight-legged, bazillion-eyed creatures of human nightmares. If you like spiders, it's probably because you've totally forgotten that they tried to eat Frodo and Harry Potter. And yet, scientists insist that spiders are simply misunderstood, not just that, but we should invite them to our homes and take beers with them. Scientists have mostly just say this because they want spiders to eat us, too, so that they can then study our corpses without fluid and come up with very scientific conclusions about spider fangs and the things that the webs spiders are made of while rubbing their hands together and saying things like "muahahahaha" and "soon, I will rule the world!"
In case you do not believe all this and you think that maybe the spiders are really cool and misunderstood, well, you obviously have not watched enough movies. But here are some of the scientific reasons you think should welcome spiders into your home, and then you can decide for yourself whether you should beware or guard your doors against spiders and wandering scientists.
1 Spiders are free from pest control
Okay, no matter where that particular theory fails to recognize that spiders are also pests and replacing a pest with another logic totally defies, but there are those who say you should let spiders hang out at inside your house because they can help you with your fruit fly / ant problem / weevil.
According to daily science, all the spiders in the world consume between 400 million and 800 million tons of insects each year, compared to about 400 million tons of animal protein consumed annually by all humans in the world, so many bugs. Many spider insects eat are pests, such as flies, earwigs, cockroaches, and butterflies that leave holes in your wool sweaters. There is even a species of spider in Africa that has evolved to eat mosquitoes filled with blood, which is cool, but if these spiders will really qualify as pest control it sort of seems like they should be killing the mosquitoes before that mosquitoes actually fill themselves with your blood.
So basically, the scientists say you should not kill the horrible eight-legged thing that hangs over your bed at four in the morning, threatening to fall on your unsuspecting face while you sleep, on the Chance he kills a fly or something because it's clearly a better idea than just swatting the fly with a coiled log.
2 Because when this spider attacked you you were totally imagining
And because scientists also believe that we are totally gullible in addition to being participants with no potential fluid in their crazy science post-mortem experiments, the next argument against murder is the 4-inch horror that just climbed your drain is that spiders are not aggressive. In fact, you should always stop petting them because they are actually super affectionate.
OK, most scientists avoid saying that spiders are affectionate, but they will tell you they are not aggressive. According to Phys.org, spiders mostly avoid humans, except of course when they fall on your face in the middle of the night. And apparently, through offering arachnophobes even more comfort, arachnologists (these are the crazy people who study spiders on purpose) promise that you will never see even the most spiders that live in your house, so do not you do not worry. Yes, the fact that there might be a nest full of wolf spiders under your sofa that you are not aware of is somehow supposed to make you ok with spider cohabitation.
You can decide for yourself how sweet and nice most spiders are, but if you conclude that arachnologists are right it's probably because you've never actually seen Sydney funnel web spiders. who have been known to attack people and also have so sharp fangs they can cut through the leather. But if you do not live in Australia, you probably have nothing to fear. Except in your nightmares.
3 Then they will try to say that your arachnophobia is stupid
In an adorable article titled "I promise you: spiders are not trying to kill you," an entomologist explains that your fear of spiders is totally irrational. The spider that jumped to you from inside a moving box did not really slit at you, and it was not really very big at all, even though you clearly heard its giant, hairy feet scraping off on the cardboard as he tried to earn enough purchase to jump in the air and grab you by the jugular.
In fact, your mind tends to exaggerate the size, speed, and deadly intentions of things that you are afraid of, so if you saw a 1-inch Wolf Spider that kind of looked you to the side as it was walking away from you, you mind could record that it was actually 18 inches long, tried to kill you, and possessed the speed of a Ferrari.
More to the point, there is not really any good reason for you to be afraid of spiders because they are not (usually) aggressive and even if they were, they are not really built for pursuit. And your fear is not even endemic, but learned. In other words, you do not fear spiders because humans are programmed to fear spiders, you fear them because your father did. So, basically, entomologists and arachnologists tell you to raise it and recover because your fear is stupid. Thank you, it's super helpful.
4 Spiders do not want to make us food, and also are not after our food
So, if you really believe that the 18-inch wolf spider that jumped to you from inside a cardboard box was not trying to kill you and eat you for breakfast, then maybe you will also believe that it does not, in fact, have interests in common with you at all except for the desire to live in a hot, dry home and not have to pay rent. For the most part, spiders do not want to feast on your blood, your woolen sweaters, or your frosted flakes, unlike many other pests that live in your home. You too will not find them floating around in boiling water, you are cooking rice in, so you can at least rest assured that you will be spared from this particular horror.
According to Mother Nature Network, if you leave the spiders alone, they will bring out just about every insect in your home, which seems like a wild claim, in fact, especially since they've just been told that spiders are not not hide in your food, and this clearly means that weevils and other pests are mostly safe from eight-legged annihilation. And also, if you're expecting spiders to help you with pest control, you'll have to import a few from Australia because even though your brain remembers a wolf spider that was 18 inches long, only a few species are actually big enough to consume a mouse.
5 The spiders are clean. No really
Spiderwebs can be ugly and messy and full of tiny corpses without the blood of little mice, but arachnologists want you to know that the spiders themselves are actually very clean. In fact, spiders groom themselves, not because they are particularly concerned about how they look in an evening gown, but because all the debris on their legs could cause them to get caught in their own canvases, which would be super embarrassing for them.
OK, but spider bites can be infected, right? Because your cousin Bob was bitten by a brown recluse and his whole arm fell. Actually no. According to daily science, bacterial infections of spider bites are very rare, and it was probably not even a spider bite that dropped Bob's arm. You can blame doctors because otherwise unidentified lesions are often misdiagnosed as spider bites. A recent study even found that of 182 patients claiming to have spider bites, only about 4 percent of them actually did most of the rest of the wounds were skin infections.
So, naturally, that means we should turn off "all welcome spiders" signs and then build small condos for them in the dark corners of our homes. Someone should remind arachnologists that head lice do not spread the disease either, and then see how they feel about opening a Hyatt Regency home for these critters.
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6 It's just good to put them outside, but in fact do not
So maybe you agree not to kill the spiders right now because you can just put a drink on your 8-legged "friend," and then crush it in a state of frantic panic because it ran to your arm before you could put it outside. But it's not good enough. No, you must learn to welcome these eight-legged horrors and live in peace with the knowledge that spiders will take up residence inside your shoes and ear canals and basically act as they own the place.
Some spider species actually evolved to live indoors, and will not survive in the great outdoors. According to Mother Nature News, most of the spiders that you are likely to find in your home-about 95 percent of them-did not accidentally wander in a day, they were born and raised there and did not. have never been outside at all. So, in other words, not only are we now expected to love spiders and not kill them, we are also expected to happily share our homes with them, just as your mother expects you to share your home with your bad paying elder brother who sleeps on the couch every night, pigs on TV, and promises he'll get a job and his own place "soon". awesome.
7 But they will bite me!
But they will bite me! At least there is this old, trustworthy rescue-we must eradicate all the spiders because the spiders bite. Unfortunately, it's not an excuse either, no matter how desperate you want it to be.
According to the CDC, there are only two species of dangerous spiders in the United States: the brown recluse and the black widow. All spiders have Venom-just in case you feel reassured-it's just that most spider venom is weak. The average spider bite may make you itch or feel nothing at all, and some spiders do not even have fangs capable of piercing human flesh. Thus, they can be equipped with tools of death, but their tools of death are not really intended to kill something bigger than a typical insect.
Of more than 50,000 known species of spider there are really only 25 species that are "clinically significant" or capable of causing disease in humans. And of those, even the most venomous spiders rarely cause death. In total, Sydney Sydney's male funnel web spiders, widely considered the second most dangerous spiders on earth, bite 30 to 40 people a year yet are not known to have killed 13 people altogether. So, even very deadly spiders are not really deadly. Now you can go yourself some spiders PET Sydney funnel Web and sit down without fear while they eradicate all the pests in your home, secure knowing that you are totally rational.
8 You must be an enemy of the earth
So, let's say you do not hate roaches and flies as much as you hate spiders, you do not care so much about venom because heart attack you'll have to see an 18-inch wolf spider will kill you faster that a black widow bite anyway, and you would like rational people please just shut up on your arachnophobia already. If it's still what you feel, consider this: your war against spiders kills the earth. Yes, if spider lovers can not blame you for pacifism by saying things like "they are useful" and "they deserve to live, too," they can accuse you of helping to bring about the collapse of the global ecosystem with your ruthless and unfounded spiderism.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald-the mouth of the earth where the second most dangerous spider in the world quietly plots the fall of humanity, Frodo and Harry Potter-says you should not really spray pesticides in the hope to eradicate spiders because you're going to ruin the entire ecosystem, leaving only the most pesticide-resistant creatures to join forces with the Sydney funnel spiders, so finally shoot you and all your neighbors in one Hairy horror show with legs. Instead, the Herald says you should fight spiders using obvious tactics like storing your kids' toys in buckets of water, which every mother will tell you is like the most practical idea of all of them. time, and buying chickens. Or as a safer bet, just switch to Antarctica. There are no spiders.
9 Because you are fighting a lost battle
And now we come to the last reason why you should not eradicate spiders in your house, and the only one that really matters. Because like Boromir in the last moments of the Lord of the Rings, you fight against a lost battle. No matter how many orcs (or giant, 18-inch wolf spiders that might as well be orcs) will decapitate you with your sword, they'll just keep coming to you until you're dead.
Once again, the Sydney Morning Herald offers this oh-so-comforting wisdom: "It's the fight against pests, not the eradication of pests." so you can stomp on them, spray them, wash them in the sink, crush them as they run up your arm during a failed rescue operation, or sick your chickens on them, and they'll just keep coming back.
You can find some comfort in the knowledge that your home is not the only Spider hotel in the world-a 2016 survey of 50 North Carolina homes found that each contained spiders. But that's not all-the average home actually accommodated around 100 different species of arthropods (the group that includes spiders and insects). Knowing that, it's hard to argue that spiders might not actually do something positive in all those dark corners of your house. That is, until entomologists start telling us things like, "you should not let all those spiders eat mosquitoes in your house, because mosquitoes deserve to live, too!" Honestly, you can not win.
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