I normally leave them alone or relocate them to a safer spot if they are in a dangerous one. Big ones that bother my wife go outside, but I keep the jumping spiders and other tiny ones around inside. I'd probably kill a brown recluse if I found it inside, but I haven't encountered one yet.
Black and also brown widows, have a very distinct web, it's very strong. As soon as I feel the web I know exactly what it is. Not seen black widow in years but brown widows are common here.
I see these in our basement with some regularity, but never in the house. I leave them be as they eat other bugs. Unsurprisingly, I don't see other bugs.
I've seen those when visiting friends in LA. They also had lizards coming into the house. I'm born and bred Chicago. It was not easy sleeping there. ;-0
I get some black widows outside my sliding patio door. I kill them quickly with a heavy-duty plastic fly-swatter I got from Amazon.
I was in a house once and I walked in the kitchen in the daytime and must have seen 200 german cockroaches. I can only imagine after lights out. No way in hell could I live there. I'd pitch a tent in the yard.
That the rumor when I was growing up even in the north of Ireland. Supposedly, they’d be encountered in shipments of bananas. I always figured it a bit of unlikely rich folklore, but saw the following article from a few years ago which I recovered... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ly-allegedly-found-asda-bananas-a7321206.html I guess myth, fairy tails, old wives tails and folklore can sometimes originate from some bit of truth. Here in the US, I have heard of Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders but I have never seen... or realized I’d seen one. That said, I have a good friend that was bitten by a brown recluse; it left a very nasty wound resulting in a nasty scar... she wasn’t a happy lady... seem to have happened in her condo which she then had it bug bombed. Not sure which poison I would future worse. I have a condition called CIP (congenital imperviousness to pain) a deceptively dangerous condition; I don’t feel pain the way I understand most people do. When cycling I sometimes get a wasp or bee caught in my clothes and get stung without feeling much in the way of pain and have never worried on venomous insects, however, I have been stung twice by scorpions; I felt a good bit of pain from those. Turns there were many about where I was living for a bit in Tulum; didn’t know how prevalent til one of the people I worked with bought an unltraviolet torch... then.... we’ll, scary when the sun went down; a good reason to sleep in hammocks down there as opposed to beds.
I live in the middle of nowhere so I get hell and all creepy crawlies coming in. Yesterday seemed to be 'spider day' as they were everywhere. I used to be a little scared of mice and big spiders but I have gotten so used to them, I generally just pick them up and put them outside now. I don't like to kill any insects (other than pests) so when I did find a black widow, I walked it 200m odd up the road. In hindsight, I probably should've killed it
We have no dangerous spiders in Sweden but I cannot abide them on the ceiling or walls. The chances of getting at them up there without administering le coup de grâce is slim .... so ... spiders pay heed!
Na, the ones in the Philippines are as big as mice and aren't afraid to scurry across your body even in the light of day.
I kill Black Widow spiders if they are anywhere in my house, outbuildings, or garage. I leave all the other spiders, and 'bugs', alone, and actually try not to disturb them. Living in Colorado, as I do, we aren't usually bothered by many kinds of insects at all, unless a person lets his home get somewhat trashed-out. But it can be (and IS) very different in other states, typically with lower altitude, warmer climates, and more rainfall. When I lived in Austin, Texas, back in my 'university' days, people were always fighting cockroaches, chiggers, mosquitoes, and, SPIDERS. There was this one kind of really big, black-and-yellow spider that would scare the hell out of you when you saw it on things like screen doors, etc.
I lived in the U.S. many, many years ago. In New Mexico, it was only a fool who'd crawl under the car if it was left more than 2 days in the garage without being moved. Black Widows were everywhere! Are you allowed to say "black" or must you say "African-American Widows" these days?
I have not seen a black one in ages but brown ones are common here, though not as venomous. Brown widows displacing black widows Ecological experts have found that brown widow spiders are pushing black widow spiders out of their habitats. When brown widows establish their home in a certain area, black widows usually choose not to live there. Therefore, people are seeing fewer black widow spiders in their typical territories. https://www.healthline.com/health/brown-widow-bite#vs-black-widow-bite
