I leave web spiders alone. I take hunter spiders outside. I kill dangerous spiders (widows, hobo suspects). I put jumping spiders inside because they hunt dangerous spiders. Then I cleaned my shop. Theres so many spiders in here. Its ridiculous. I'd spend all day relocating them if I tried. I kill them all. Except jumpers.
I hate creepy crawlies. I used to run away like a little girl. I'm much better now at handling them...sort of. I can now dispose of them calmly and then have a quiet little meltdown in the corner. On the positive my house is the cleanest, non cluttered and most sterile on the planet because I don't want to attract bugs. When I was a kid I read somewhere that roaches lay eggs in the glue that holds cardboard boxes together. So, I made my parents get rid of all the boxes and replace them with plastic containers.
You would absolutely hate it here in Texas, then. We have a variety called a Palmetto bug. These little bastards don't swarm like the common German cockroach, but they look like a 2 inch (5cm) cockroach (because they are) and they can fly...
I'm headed to CA to work in the sewer. I dunno if what they have are necessarily palmetto bugs, but they get to 2", fly, and swarm. I've seen manholes entirely covered on the inside with them. There's usually about 1 in 100 that are albino for whatever reason.
Indoor spiders get killed on sight - squashed via paper towel. It’s a rare event. Cockroaches as well, except the aforementioned big ass palmetto ****ers. I generally will try to catch these live and toss them back out to the yard. They’re abdomens are seriously nasty to burst and they usually only seek to get in during a lot of rain. web spiders in the yard I generally try to leave to their business weird little black top cockroaches for some reason I adore. They are very cute and when attacked by me with the intent of being put out into the yard, they will bury their head into the carpet, throw rug, or any other available equivalent of sand that they can find. The only species of cockroach that I for some reason find to be cute.
I have kept tarantulas, scorpions and black widows as a child. I had a water moccasin when I was 14 until my Canuck stepdad figured out what it was.
Typically I only find the heads and wings of palmetto bugs after one of the cats has 'disposed' of the rest...
That's when they are most tasty! Everything with an exoskeleton must. I caught a crayfish from the wild and put it in my 30 gallon tank about 15 months ago. He/she molted after a few days and has not done so again and is still alive. I have named it 'methusala'. I sometimes feel sorry for it, that long isolated from it's own kind. Maybe I should release it back to the river?
My parents house is infested with these 'house centipedes', inside and out. I was fairly scared of them as a kid because they were super fast and often made an audible squeal when smushed. Had I known how voracious of a hunter they were of spiders, roaches and other pests, I would not have smushed them. But I was a kid and they might as well have been demon aliens.
I ignore bugs, and spiders. Its indian meal moths I hate. they are my enemy, my nemesis, the bane of my existence. Plodia interpunctella
The only thing that compares in Texas is the fleas. If they get into your carpet, it's almost impossible to kill 'em without multiple bombings.
I have two different species. The Red Swamp and the Appalachian Brook Crayfish. I caught them in home made traps and I have a bunch of them. 57 at one time. I want to "seed" them in my homemade ponds and pools. Eventually want to eat them
They are damn good eating, better have a plethora. Mine has a blueish tint. I think they may live 3-4 years.
If surprised by them, I have a primal jump reaction, but if I know they are there, I have no real fear.... except when I spent time in Brazil after hearing the local tales of their Wandering Spider (never saw one). I have seen some pretty large spiders...they leave me alone and I leave them alone. I have the same philosophy with snakes, though I will relocate venomous ones if they are found in a place where they might be accidentally encountered by others.
I have a couple streams nearby with healthy populations of crayfish. I set traps out a couple times a summer and have had a few good hauls. I have several ways to prepare them depending on how many I have.