Even though I still have arachnophobia, I’ve intentionally lived with spiders for over a decade and I’ve not had issues with mosquitoes even if I left all of my windows open. And my roommates are thriving!

They’re very chill roommates, too! After about 1-2 months of adjusting to living together in my old apartment, they stopped spinning webs in the areas which I used frequently and focused on the zones which I left out for them - ceiling corners, gaps between walls and furniture, etc. I did occasionally clean up their old webs every now and again (while taking great care not to bother the spiders themselves) because they also gathered a lot of dust. But they’d replace the old webbing in a matter of days.

And they never developed overpopulation issues, even though I did see them producing egg sacks regularly. I was expecting to drown in spiders by the end of the first year of trying this arrangement, but I never counted more than 15-20 spiders apartment-wide.

Those spiders you find inside may be of a type completely adapted to living indoors with humans. Putting one outside means death.

Spider bro is my ally against the wool moths, at the moment. If I catch one I’m putting it in the closet.

They earn their keep.

We had aphids in the garden last year. Wolf spider moved in, big fat guy. Made short work of em. Wolf spider is welcome among my lettuce any day.

I like spiders until they bite me when I sleep. Then peace is over.

I have so many spiders on the lower floor of the place I’m in now I’ve given up on even bringing them outside. I identify what they are to keep track if we have an uptick in dangerous ones. If it is a particularly gross one it goes in the garage to war it out with the cellar spiders otherwise I just shoo them under furniture so I don’t have to think about it. Damnit I’m turning into my dad…

My wife and all my kids are deathly afraid of spiders. I put them all outside and I’m happy that’s the example I’m setting.

Spider bro, spider bro, keeping that fly population low.

My cat says

👀🍽😼

(eats it then spits it out, then try to eat it again, repeat until dead)

Sorry spiders, I’m team Cat.

I have severe arachnophobia, i can’t kill spiders i am too afraid of them. But my cat is a ruthless killer and never fails to make them dissappear.

I agree that we shouldn’t disturb nature, but let’s not forget that animals kill each other all the time. There’s no such thing as ethics in nature.

My preferred method is using a piece of paper, slide it gently under them and lift.

Spiders are good, they eat the other bugs that cause trouble. The spiders we have are tiny though.

Sylvari spotted.

I saw a couple recluse spiders in my apartment several months ago and maybe I’m an idiot, but I left them alone. They were truly more scared of me than I was of them. They don’t want to bother me and only will if I threaten them. So I left them alone and they just chilled in their “recluse” hiding spots.

Immediately came to mind