Spiders are one thing I think we could do without in the ecosystem, and anyone who knows me would know how much of an environment/nature freak I am. I just really hate spiders.
I like spiders reasonably well. I used to have a friend the daddy long legs that lived in the corner above my bed (I was in top bunk, so we got real close). If other people are scared of a spider, I go up to them and poke them with a stick, gently, to annoy them and scare the people.
The only time I don't like spiders is when I pick something old up, and a spider scuttles on to my hand. Or when they jump of the toilet door, jus when you're about to open it and land on you. But it's usually only huntsmans that do that, and they're not poisonous (but I don't like huntsmans much because of it).
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Wait--you live in Australia right? Like New Zealand do you get those big reddish clear spiders? I dunno what they are, I was just watching TV once, and saw one--the man was in Australia. Dunno. We get giant house spiders here, and a lot of others. I don't know what they're called though.
I would HATE to live in Australia. All those spiders, all those poisonous spiders... Argh, can't think about it... Oh and the snakes and scorpions and so on...
I once heard Hawaii has no poisonous insects. That's interesting. I'd love to visit New Zealand, but almost worse than some spiders--New Zealand has wetas. HUGE bush cricket things. Supposedly they give a nasty bite.
Oh yeah, wetas are creepy looking. But maybe you would reconsider, Kilty, your feelings about spiders when we're overrun with every other kind of bug/insect. Spiders eat aphids, and aphids eat plants you probably quite like. Without spiders to control the population of that kind of insect, whole ecosystems could go out of wack.
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Most likely true--but can't we just rid the venomous ones? I dunno. In the days passed since I posted this (the first post) I've completely overcome my fear of spiders. Too many to fear them anymore, and useless, really. At least I'll never have to deal with a weta. How would you squish it? It'd take. . . .a chair thrown at it or something.
I don't know how you would squish a weta, and personally, I'm not all that keen on killing bugs anyway, other than the really tiny ones I can get with my finger and just rub off.
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