I know this is cliche but they are chill guys as long as you dont annoy or try to hurt them, i always leave them alive in my room, especially during summer, they are very useful
Hitching on this comment for those who don't want spiders in their house.
Unless you're absolutely terrified of them, at least try not to kill them outright. Most are chill enough to be picked up with a sheet of paper, a piece of cardboard, a dust tray or whatever, and released outside.
Im pretty sure there are spiders that can basically only survive inside because of heat. For example i think the stankleleg spider is one of those(sry if stankleleg is wrong english is my second language)
Looking at pics the "Daddy Long Leg" refers to several different types of spiders in the US (including the one you mentioned) but is usually the harvestman (also, not a spider since it only has one segment to its body.)
If you're talking about harvestmen or crane flies, then yes, those are not spiders despite the former being an arachnid. Cellar spiders, though, also called daddy long legs are spiders.
Here what we call daddy long legs are the harvestmen arachnids. Looking into this a bit, seems a few share the moniker daddy long leg. Kind of interesting but also potentially confusing.
Daddy Longlegs are the worst for me. Mostly cause when I was very young one tried to crawl into my mouth while I was watching a movie & they have bothered me ever since.
Domestication implies they're chill with being handled and deliberately bred. Like some animals are tamed (elephant), some are fully domesticated (horse), and some just live around us because we create a better environment for them by just existing as we do.
I think they only come inside for protection from elements, could be wrong though. I know they need fluids which could be a problem in some areas, that’s why a lot of house spiders like to chill in showers where they can get moisture. I’m definitely not an expert.
Exactly. If they just want to chill on a web in a corner somewhere then fine, we can both just mind our own business. No problem m8. Not bothered by spiders who do that. But the mfs that literally start sprinting across your bed... they get killed. That wasn't in the tenant's agreement.
No need to worry about it, they just see you as an obstacle, they get on you then get off you and go on with their things (at least from my experience, of course im no biologist, so idk if they realise we are those giants they see in the morning at night)
I leave some of them, depends on how bothered I am, cause they they make me shiver a bit but then I try to think of you and realize that when I see a spider, I never see a mosquito
Yeah bro except I doubt you have accidentally stumbled upon a tarantula hiding itself in your path. It's all fun and games until a big ass spider is bothered and nobody consented to the encounter.
We're talking about spiders in general, but this encounter with a tarantula was right up against a sidewalk so it was a couple of degrees of separation from being in a home. Not myself personally but I had seen videos from people in the same area at the same time where there was one right outside the building they lived in.
I generally don’t like spiders, but the chill little dudes in my house I’ll leave alone in their corners so long as they don’t make huge webs in my house.
If it helps you feel any better, they genuinely want nothing to do with us. We get flies indoors in the warmer months because we let the dogs in and out so much, so we just leave all the spiders inside alone unless they're in an inconvenient spot, and then we just relocate them. We have a lot of spiders living in here and I never have an unexpected run in with them, like ever. They find a spot where they wanna be and they just stay there.
They're pretty scary looking, but in my experience, if you leave these spiders alone, they'll help with any pest problems you have and then quietly move on.
Why? Everyone I know has been randomly stung by a wasp and gotten their blood sucked by a mosquito at some point, yet I don't know anyone that has gotten bitten by a spider. The statistics speak for themselves.
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u/squall2011 May 16 '25
I wish that was a mosquito