Quote Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys;3572533

Spiders are good for humans. They are a lot more harmless, and a lot more fragile, than people think. A fall from your computer desk would be [I
fatal[/I] to a Chilean Rosehair Tarantula (The most docile breed of T, popular as pets, and often used in movies due to being unlikely to bite). Spiders are smart enough not to pick fights with things like us that can easily kill them without ever becoming vulnerable to the spider's defence mechanisms.

Spider prey, conversely is dangerous to human beings as it contains bugs that are not only "gross creepy-crawlies," but also carriers of disease, as well as more aggressive bugs, such as wasps (defending on the breed of spider, of course -- naturally a tiny salticidae-type could never digest a wasp, but some argiopes are big enough to tackle the little bastards)

I do, however, understand how some of you feel about spiders because that is how I feel about children.
I like to think myself as rational and that all bugs (and spiders) that I dislike are actually very useful in the ecosystem and prey upon actually dangerous creatures. I really do.

Until they enter my home. Rationality sort of flies out of the window when you have a phobia.

Quote Originally Posted by Freya View Post
I named her jolene because she ate another banana spider once.