OK, maybe I'll get over my shudders if I face them... :lol:
I don't kill spiders in my house unless they are poisonous. We have gotten a black widow in one time. My cats think spides are toys and try to kill them. So I have to get them out of the house as soon as I find them if I don't want the cats to kill them. I do the same thing at work. They probably think I'm crazy. If I find a spider, I put it out the front door instead of killing it.
Spiders are all venomous. That's how they catch their prey. Just not all of them can have an effect on humans. What I worry most about in the house, because my cats are also spider hunters are which ones have potent enough venom to effect a cat even if they can hurt me. I also will remove and relocate them rather than harm one, but I'm not touching them with my bare hands
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You might find this funny.... I didn't!
One of the cool things I get to do is ride an ATV down our hiking/biking trails. However, what isn't cool is being the first one down the trail in the early morning, and happening upon a spider web that amazing can be made overnight to stretch all the way across the trail. So, one morning I'm happily puttering down the trail, enjoying nature and life, occasionally ducking when I catch the sun hitting a spider web. One web, however, was too low to avoid, and I went through it right at "face level". So I'm trying to wipe this sticky totally disgusting web off my face as I'm still going 5mph or so down the trail, just wondering if maybe there was a spider attached to it when I hit it. A minute or so later, yeah, you guessed it... I feel this crawling sensation on my neck, and I freak out, nearly crash into a tree and bring my ATV to a quick halt. I am just so grateful that I was alone, and that no early riser happened to be on the trail with an IPhone handy, or I might have been the subject in a viral video on Youtube, screaming like a 12 year old girl and doing the "spider dance" trying to get this creature from hell OFF OF ME!!! It was one of these:
They are quite venomous and they may not be deadly like a black widow can be, they can make you pretty sick if you get bitten by one.
She was about 5 or 6 inches long but she may as well have been 5 or 6 feet long. She survived, as did I, as I finally flung her and her nasty web off of me and let's just say the rest of the trail was ridden at speeds in excess of 5 mph...
I am totally convinced that even a couple of years later, every time I ride down that trail, she's just sitting or hanging around somewhere just waiting for another chance...
I would rather have to deal with convincing an 8 foot long alligator that the side of the highway is not a good place to bask in the sunlight in early springtime like we have to do every year, than get up close and personal with one of these things again.
Carl
And they're big enough to see from behind the wheel of your car? 
